Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Me Spel Bad Engrish?

As has been pointed out by more than a few reader of this blog, and my mother in the comments of my last post, my spelling, and my grammar too for that manor, leave something to be desired. I've never really had particularly good spelling, I remember once in 10 grade testing on a fourth grade level for spelling, and in class here my students will find mistakes in things I write on the board, I should really start telling them that spotting the mistakes is some sort of contest or game. I could blame the computer and it's always accessible spell check, which is why most of the mistakes have to do with homonyms, but frankly I just don't care. Stuides heve shoun that it's posible to red sentnces wth a huge numbar of jambled leters so long as the firrst and last are coreect. I don't even really run the things I write here though a proper spell check, my browser has a built in one witch catches the most egregious errors. Honestly I'm just waiting for the point when technology gets good enough to not just correct all my spelling but fix all the grammar mistakes as well. The grammar checks in most word processors aren't great yet, the rules of grammar are far more difficult than the rules of spelling, but I bet one day some competitor of Microsoft will make a more concerted effort to build a better spell check and sort most of this out once and for all. Until that day though I guess I'll just have to live with my bad speling.

6 comments:

Mom said...

Oy. I guess I deserved that. At least I can make better ravioli than my sister.

Anonymous said...

This semester i can notice that it's getting worse day by day but i will keep reading until i could not understand anything you write finally.
-Teddy

LoriBruno said...

Hey--it's my birthday in China already! I hope my sister can be nice to me on my special day.....

Mom said...

Happy early birthday, Lori! I hope your upcoming year brings you much in the way of culinary skills.

bob davis said...

It's bad when your chinese readers are complaining. Think of the eximple.

Unknown said...

Maybe you should just take up Chinese. Do you really have to spell, or just know the characters?