Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 03, 2020

So are table manners.

A place versus a character is also an odd comparison to make in an essay.

Spelling words right, and then having spell check “correct” you with an entirely different word is so 21st century.

Thank goodness Mrs. Olsen is from the 20th Century and cares about good spelling.

Mwth?

He belongs in 16th Century, when spelling was pretty flexible. Or should I say pritty flecksible.

Theodore Roosevelt – who ranks among the Top Two of our most intelligent and literary presidents – wrote 47 books and more than 150,000 letters, plus numerous articles, editorials and commentaries. His spelling, however, was horrible, and he was a proponent of simplified spelling. See link below to view digitized pages from his “fonetic spelling book.”

https://theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record.aspx?libID=o283122

Back when I was in school, I had to do a comparison essay. And then I had to do a new comparison essay as the teacher was not amused.

I still can’t figure out why comparing sex-ed to drivers-ed was so bad. All I did was point out how we have the classroom “read the books, study the material, listen to the teacher” stuff and then we’d get together in a small group and then the teacher would let us actually put the knowledge into practice. So why couldn’t we do the same for driver’s ed and actually get behind the wheel of a car after we did the classroom learning for that?

Oh, wait, I think I finally got it.

The boy’s right. Back in the 16th century, when men were men and spelling was an art form, you could spell a word any way you wanted to. Freedom of spelling ruled! We need to take America back to the golden age of spelling! For 400 years we have lived under the tyranny of the dictionary! Enough!

“Yea!” (My own, personal, pet peeve.)

The Great Spelling Hunt helps make junk/scam emails amusing!(And then the obvious “spell check” errors in what passes for news items today.)

No! No! Nopeitty- NOPE! Learn to spell, kid!!!

Correct spelling is even more important in the modern world. Computer translators are used in a world that is much smaller than it was a few decades ago, and until computer translators can read the writer’s mind, spelling is very important.

That’s why we have spell check.

So the sex-ed teacher let you put the knowledge into practice? For example … ?? !

I value good spelling, but my daughter is dyslexic. I have had multiple special ed teachers tell me she will probably never spell well. So, what does her 6th grade English teacher grade on? Spelling.

Facepalm.

Hees rite u no.

Shows lack of imagination for those who can only come up with one way to spell a word.

Sad but true.

Doing the essay on paper is what’s 20th century. Now it should be submitted to a collaborative platform where Mrs. Olsen and a millennial aide (most of us are 20-40 years old) grade the essays, including grammatical errors missed by the word processors.

kids are so use to texting with a letter for a whole word….it ‘s not surprising that they don’t know how to spell the word with all of its letters.

He’s sort of right: Spelling consistently is very 20th (and 19th and some of the 18th) century: Samuel Johnson published his dictionary in 1755.

Jef Mallet’s Blog Posts,Frazz18 hrs · My recollection is that the bulk of both the Narnia and Harry Potter books takes place in a realm where the century is probably not relevant and certainly not clear. But that they’re both in centuries when spelling counted for something.