Edumacashuns!

This is ridiculous!


A lecturer (since they didn't say he was a professor, I'm hoping against hope this means he's not actually a teacher, but someone who just conducts talks on various topics) at a British University has suggested that since people can't seem to learn to spell correctly, we should just accept whatever spellings they come up with as long as we get the gist of what they're trying to say.



WHAT?!?!? NO!!!!!



The answer to a problem of people being stupid is NOT - let me repeat NOT!!! - to lower our standards and accept the stupidity as correct.

I agree that the whole text/instant messaging craze has allowed spelling to decline. I can barely read comment sections on news articles or blogs because I cannot read the drivel people write. But this is exactly why we cannot simply shrug and say "Well, if everyone spells it 'thier' then I guess it's okay." No!!

I'm sorry Ken, but if someone cannot properly spell simple words (his examples were: "ignor," "occured," "thier," "truely," "speach" and "twelth") by the time they are in college, then there is a serious problem. I don't think that someone who goes to a University to get a degree should be a "speach" writer. The whole point of Continuing Education is to expand your knowlege and be more intelligent. If you're not going to learn anything - what's the point in going?? And if you think this is what should be considered passable, then please find another day job. There is enough idiocy in the world - we don't need to be advocating more.

I'm honestly surprised this wasn't suggested by an American professor, seeing as we're usually considered the stupider of the two countries. I suppose we feel the same way, we've just never officially declared it.


Mee-yaow!