Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 13, 2012

Wait till his parents check it out.

It’s not just a bad test grade. It’s a tool to start lowering expectations, and have as much room as possible for improvement.

Nowhere to go but UP. Seriously go find the old dude with balloons on his house and get on board cause the parental units are gonna kill you.

It helps to know how to spell things correctly, but with Google, just look it up! Not on line? Dictionaries still work just as well as they did before….I can’t spell for chit…..

Honest to goodness! We just got a “new” used car last month… low mileage, prefect condition, loaded with extras, great price… the buy of a lifetime. We hadn’t had it two weeks when the son gets rear ended on I-96. Can’t win for losin’! (The upside is that all the people involved were uninjured. The man was even nice enough to drive my son to his destination. And we sure won’t be freaking about that first scratch!)

Who says “Eww” in response to a bad grade? Unless he spelled words in ways that evoke gross images…

Lack of imagination and a churlish nature will produce such negative comments.

Varnes: Not online? How do they participate in the discussion?.Redkaycei: There are three ways languages get new words: French: Turn it over to l’Academie Française and in a decade they will come up with an acceptable word – meanwhile it can’t be used on any legal document.German: Describe it in as few words as possible, knock out the spaces, and you have the word – long, but it is a word.English: Look around and find a language that already has a word for it, steal it. Unfortunately, since most languages use the Roman alphabet, but pronounce the letters differently, the English word is either horribly mispronounced or misspelled, or both [oboe and haut-boy, from French haut bois]. Not just Romance and Germanic, but Slavic, Semitic, Sanskrit, Athabaskan, Polynesian, and the list goes on.

Or there is scratching it & colliding with a Brinks truck!

Going through life not knowing how to spell is like going through life with a dirty face. You can do it, but people will not think well of you.