For the Purist.

Anonymous-0

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Aguanga 5/9/08.Dictionary at the ready..

Fi yuo cna raed tihs,you hvae a sgtrane mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs? olny 55 precnet plepoe can.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulactly uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The pheonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid,aoccdrnig to a rseaecrh at Cmabirgde Uinervtisy,it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteers in a wrod are, The olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae,
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the hmuan mnid deos not raed ervey lteter,but the wrod as a wlohe,azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpelign was imorpatnt!! - c tehre is nohtnig wonrg wtih my selpling..
 
That's pretty good, and not hard to read at all. Still it often amazes me how many people have problems raednig adn udnersatnding plain English....
 
For a hilarious...and provocative...short journey into phonetic spelling (it's a little slow to wade thru, but it's great fun), Google "Mayhem In The Classroom" and click on grr.net hit.
It's attributed there to an Isaac Asimov anthology, but it actually first appeared as one of the fact articles in Astounding SF, later Astounding SF & Fact, under the title (to the best of memory) as
Meihem In (The?) Klasruum".
 
If you"re an Asimov fan, andrew-may.com has a listing of some of his articles in ASF...click on an "articles" link, scroll down past John Campbells editorials to an alphabetical list including Asimov.
I particularly remember "The Sound Of Panting".
 
Yeah, but can a monkey read it?

Sometime a few months back, someone did some sort of experiment on a monkey comapared to an adult human, and whatever it was...was simpler than simple and the monkey could do it right everytime and faster. The scientists conducting the experiment made a big to do about the monkey's intelligence compared to the humans, and even questioned the human's compared to the monkey's. Yeah, right. The monkey was operating on a nearly empty hard drive. The human's hard drive was so full that it needed defragmenting. Either that, or the human challenging the monkey was one of its kookie scientist keepers whom could design a door knob, not turn one...I figured. And by the way, is it monkey or hey, hey its a monkee that keeps monkeying around? Grin.
 
Our future generations will be in big trouble when competing on a global level. Are being so dumbed down won't be able to spell their own names, or even have to for that matter. Home school, home school, home school...is that hom skul? Mandated stupidity gets to me. Pull your kids out of school and home school them for their (our) future's sake.

Mark...or is my name Mrq (Good Lord, we're in trouble).
 
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