Making an Arguement for Misspelling (not)
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Good spellers, Smith says, should be able to go on writing as usual; those who find the current rules of English too hard to learn should have their spelling labeled variant, not wrong.
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This article would lead one to believe that spelling errors just can't be helped. They are everywhere and we should just accept them as a new way to spell things. Since it's happened in the past, and other countries do it, should we also?
I think not. I hate spelling errors in official things. Sure - they happen a lot in emails and on message boards - but I have a hard time counting those...
But in official things - say your term paper, a menu, signage at a national park, your newspaper, your company's logo - all those should be spelled correctly. And for the record, I've found spelling errors in all of them.
The company logo and national forest were the most alarming with the logo leaving out a double letter (either the last of the first word of the first of the last word) which was not on purpose because everywhere else it was spelled correctly.
And also at Sequoia - a word spelled wrong on a sign.
I also believe I'm a hypocrit as I can't seem to catch my own spelling errors right away. I seem to have to send something to the printer and get it past the point where I can't "stop the presses" and then - bammo - look at that glaring error right there.
Which is why someone else always proofreads for me. Usually more then one person.
Sew, whut du u theenk? Kepe on spelling korect? Or shude we all be labuled as varient and not rong?
