It's sort of like when people put really small text on a website. "Well, anyone can read what it says, so what's the problem?" The problem is that it gives me a headache! With spelling, the problem is that it looks careless. There should be no excuse for not running a spell checker. Almost as bad are the mistakes the spell-checker doesn't catch, which just make people look dumb.
I definitely agree that students shouldn't be allowed to get away with bad spelling. Do they even teach spelling in schools anymore??
Megan;223597 wrote: Do they even teach spelling in schools anymore??
Yes, it's called Red Squiggly Underlines; 101
I had a friend who is a lawyer have me set his MS word to auto correct the word PUBIC to PUBLIC becasue several times he did type that and spell check wouldn't catch it...
Well I've heard that 80% of the population don't believe polls of what people think.... LOL Always loved that joke.
The sad truth is, grammar and spelling are going out the door in many places. Some schools don't care about spelling on papers written, pass it off that spell check will fix it for them... Hello... if you are counting on spell check to fix it, but you still get spelling mistakes on the paper, you should loose points!!!!!
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 04:13 — 28th August 2007.
Thanks for pointing that out, Abhi. Research often gets distorted when it's reported by mainstream media or spread around the internet like this. When I saw that I wondered what was in the original study (if there was one!).
This is quite old now, and somewhat debunked, but still interesting. There's no evidence that any research was conducted as claimed (at least at Cambridge), and it's easy to devise counterexamples to the principle proposed. But it can be pulled off with some texts, and that's cool. The exact text has evolved as the meme spread across the internet, which is also curious to observe.
i understood every word perfectly except for the university that that resercher dude was from, probably because i knew all the words cept for that one, strange.
I can read it, and I have seen that before. It's pretty interesting how the human mind works.
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Sir P posted this at 14:44 — 10th September 2007.
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I can read it but i had to look twice at power... thought it said phwoar lmao
tomuchcash posted this at 04:58 — 28th August 2007.
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Yea too easy, seen that 1 b4 too
Megan posted this at 14:37 — 27th August 2007.
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It's sort of like when people put really small text on a website. "Well, anyone can read what it says, so what's the problem?" The problem is that it gives me a headache! With spelling, the problem is that it looks careless. There should be no excuse for not running a spell checker. Almost as bad are the mistakes the spell-checker doesn't catch, which just make people look dumb.
I definitely agree that students shouldn't be allowed to get away with bad spelling. Do they even teach spelling in schools anymore??
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Greg K posted this at 22:06 — 27th August 2007.
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Yes, it's called Red Squiggly Underlines; 101
I had a friend who is a lawyer have me set his MS word to auto correct the word PUBIC to PUBLIC becasue several times he did type that and spell check wouldn't catch it...
Greg K posted this at 05:13 — 27th August 2007.
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Well I've heard that 80% of the population don't believe polls of what people think.... LOL Always loved that joke.
The sad truth is, grammar and spelling are going out the door in many places. Some schools don't care about spelling on papers written, pass it off that spell check will fix it for them... Hello... if you are counting on spell check to fix it, but you still get spelling mistakes on the paper, you should loose points!!!!!
-Greg
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 04:13 — 28th August 2007.
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I guess you don't check your forum posts, then?
Megan posted this at 14:28 — 26th August 2007.
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Thanks for pointing that out, Abhi. Research often gets distorted when it's reported by mainstream media or spread around the internet like this. When I saw that I wondered what was in the original study (if there was one!).
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 02:52 — 26th August 2007.
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This is quite old now, and somewhat debunked, but still interesting. There's no evidence that any research was conducted as claimed (at least at Cambridge), and it's easy to devise counterexamples to the principle proposed. But it can be pulled off with some texts, and that's cool. The exact text has evolved as the meme spread across the internet, which is also curious to observe.
The links on the Snopes page about this are interesting, especially the ones to Matt Davis's discussion and Uncle Jazzbeau's post.
sitesupport posted this at 00:57 — 26th August 2007.
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i understood every word perfectly except for the university that that resercher dude was from, probably because i knew all the words cept for that one, strange.
Allthough after inspecting it is it Cambridge?
Megan posted this at 21:53 — 25th August 2007.
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Yes, it does
I hope this doesn't lead people to believe that poor spelling is okay! I could read that but it wasn't too comfortable!
JeevesBond posted this at 20:46 — 25th August 2007.
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This reminds me of the Iain M. Banks novel 'Feersum Endjinn', whole chapters are written phonetically. Not quite the same as this idea, but similar.
The poll is showing 100%, when only 55% of people are supposed to be able to read it! Does that mean we all have strange minds?
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mc319 posted this at 22:37 — 2nd September 2007.
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Does it mean we have strange minds or we are all smart?
Pete posted this at 21:52 — 25th August 2007.
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I can read it darn fine. Had a bit of a trouble looking at the first word (fi) though. But everything went smoothly afterward.
teammatt3 posted this at 19:20 — 25th August 2007.
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I've seen that before too, I can still read it.
kazimmerman posted this at 11:21 — 25th August 2007.
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I can read it, and I have seen that before. It's pretty interesting how the human mind works.
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