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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
 
dirtyblacksocks;1669937; said:
How well you spell can directly affect how intelligent or well educated people think you are, regardless of if it's true or not.

When some one says they suck at math, everyone just says "Oh, ok, I suck at math too, no big deal."

But when a person says they can't read, or were placed into a remedial english course on a college placement test - a lot of people make the assumption that they're not bright because of it.

Language Arts and English, for whatever reason, are a key element in how our society bases their professional opinions of people.
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its just a form of quick type. Its nothing new.
 
xxt2goodxx;1670020; said:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Yeah, I can read your post just fine. That's not what I'm talking about though. You're referring to poor typing skills. Most of the words that I can't understand are so rediculously misspelled that they leave me clueless as to their intended meaning.
 
dirtyblacksocks;1670008; said:
I also recently saw somthing on the news where parents who home schooled their children were being forced to send their kids to school because of some stupid law - even though their children demonstrated superior skills to kids two grades higher than them!
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I might have read something different. I understood it to be the opposite. Children were being forced to go to school because parents lacked any kind of teaching credential, thus their children were not receiving a properly state and federally regulated education.

Gotta consider the source of course. Guess it depends on who is doing the reporting....
 
Yeah, I forgot to mention that the parents were both teachers, though I can't remember which grade.

I guess it would be a completely different story if it was just some average Joe Schmoe trying to teach his kids what he deemed to be correct.
 
I blame Rally's avatar! LOL j/k!
 
Hawkfish3.0;1670030; said:
Yeah, I can read your post just fine. That's not what I'm talking about though. You're referring to poor typing skills. Most of the words that I can't understand are so rediculously misspelled that they leave me clueless as to their intended meaning.
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ahh i c.... i thought you didnt like poor grammar or misspelled words at all... its the internet and not everyone is an adult or can think at a college level or are really smart
 
Also realize that we have members as young as 12 here. So its expected that they type like their 12.

LOL
 
xxt2goodxx;1670051; said:
ahh i c.... i thought you didnt like poor grammar or misspelled words at all... its the internet and not everyone is an adult or can think at a college level or are really smart
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I understand that. I just wanted to get a good conversation going about something that really is a serious problem, especially here in the US. How are we supposed to compete with the rest of the world when our kids can't even form a properly structured sentence? I'm not angry about it, I just thought it would be an interesting topic to discuss.
 
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