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[MurphOnMillerAve]

........ain't it cool how stupid some people can appear by a simple spelling error?

Actually pretty sad as this comes from how our school systems stopped teaching spelling a few decades ago.......

AND grammar, and punctuation, and sentence structure. I was actually forbidden (which I promptly ignored,) to use diagramming in lessons.

My Catholic school buddies, who have identified themselves, thus far, on this forum, will likely remember diagrams being used to explain sentence structure. Remember those tall tree-like structures used to demonstrate, for example, how nicely subordinate clauses could fit into Direct Object spots, or as Predicate Nominatives, or as Predicate Adjectives, to teach such concepts?

The misguided (IMO) hotbabe ( a dubious distinction) who did the forbidding is now superintendent of schools. Fortunately, I've been long gone from that system.

[robert.]

Meye spellin is the wurst on the planit and eye no it.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Meye spellin is the wurst on the planit and eye no it.

But apparently you are a wiz at phonetics.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

........ain't it cool how stupid some people can appear by a simple spelling error?

Actually pretty sad as this comes from how our school systems stopped teaching spelling a few decades ago.......

AND grammar, and punctuation, and sentence structure. I was actually forbidden (which I promptly ignored,) to use diagramming in lessons.

My Catholic school buddies, who have identified themselves, thus far, on this forum, will likely remember diagrams being used to explain sentence structure. Remember those tall tree-like structures used to demonstrate, for example, how nicely subordinate clauses could fit into Direct Object spots, or as Predicate Nominatives, or as Predicate Adjectives, to teach such concepts?

The misguided (IMO) hotbabe ( a dubious distinction) who did the forbidding is now superintendent of schools. Fortunately, I've been long gone from that system.

All too sad.

[rogruth]

The schools get a lot of deserved blame but don't forget advertising of every sort also does the misspelling but on PURPOSE.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The schools get a lot of deserved blame but don't forget advertising of every sort also does the misspelling but on PURPOSE.

That's due to copyright laws - those misspelled names are owned and protected.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The schools get a lot of deserved blame but don't forget advertising of every sort also does the misspelling but on PURPOSE.

Yes, I noticed that often when some genius has used "4" in place of the word "for." Is that supposed to be cute? Or does it save great chunks of valuable time? Yeeeeegodz.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The schools get a lot of deserved blame but don't forget advertising of every sort also does the misspelling but on PURPOSE.

Yes, I noticed that often when some genius has used "4" in place of the word "for." Is that supposed to be cute? Or does it save great chunks of valuable time? Yeeeeegodz.

No, it's laziness at the keyboard and I freely admit to doing it.

[Mitch]

I had the same English teacher in 10th grade and as a senior. She knew I was a lazy ba$tard when it came to home work, the 25 vocabulary words per week, and I especially hated the literature crap, ie: Shakespeare, but I impressed the hell out of her once when she was raggin' on me about sentence structure. I went to the front of the room and proceeded to diagram a sentence across all 3 of the boards. The sentence was long enough to be a paragraph in itself. She studied the board for a while, looked at me, looked at the board again, shook her head in disbelief and told me to sit down. I finished my senior year with a B in English, which I thought was pretty impressive for an average C student. Today, I can barely remember the difference between an adjective and a adverb.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That's a very good story, Mitch. But judging from how well you express yourself on this forum, I would have thought you would have gotten an "A'. It's appropriate you used a winking-face at the end, there, because I do not believe you, any more than you do, about barely remembering the difference between adjectives and adverbs thesedays. You know them. It's just something you do not have much occasion to analyze these days. It isn't always and only a diploma or degree that indicates a successful education, sir. You've done very well for yourself.
Murph

[Mitch]

You had to do all the work or you would get an I on the report card. If you had an incomplete at the end of the year, you were going to summer school and no diploma. I'd scratch something together and take a D or even an E rather than get an incomplete!

[Roy]

I'd scratch something together and take a D or even an E rather than get an incomplete!

What the hell is an "E"?

[rogruth]

The schools get a lot of deserved blame but don't forget advertising of every sort also does the misspelling but on PURPOSE.

Yes, I noticed that often when some genius has used "4" in place of the word "for." Is that supposed to be cute? Or does it save great chunks of valuable time? Yeeeeegodz.

Most of this is to save spaceon the little screens that are written on and read from. It also saves characters so they can write more.

[robert.]

The schools get a lot of deserved blame but don't forget advertising of every sort also does the misspelling but on PURPOSE.

Yes, I noticed that often when some genius has used "4" in place of the word "for." Is that supposed to be cute? Or does it save great chunks of valuable time? Yeeeeegodz.

No, it's laziness at the keyboard and I freely admit to doing it.

When texting first came out you were limited to the amount of characters used monthly. That's when i saw it go mainstrem

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I've seen the "4" used that way on billboards, too, and in magazine ads.