[Rhodes22-list] Satire: Fundimentals

[brad haslett]

Bil,

ar u makin fun uv me cos I wint to colage in arcinsaw?
havin ADD is no piknik.  Ah wunt my SS disibiliti
chek.

Braad
--- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:

> PS.  Adult ADD is Liberal claptrap.  If you can't
> spell, take 
> responsibility for it.
> 
> Bill Effros
> 
> Bill Effros wrote:
> 
> > Bard,
> >
> > I believe when you are dogmatically advancing a
> position regarding 
> > fundamentals, at the very least you can employ the
> fundamentals you 
> > are so stridently advocating.
> >
> > Michael's spelling is always correct when he uses
> voice recognition, 
> > and his spell checker won't pick up homonyms or
> spoonerisms.
> >
> > Bill Effros
> >
> >
> > brad haslett wrote:
> >
> >> Bill,
> >>
> >> MJM's voice recognition software set the curve
> for
> >> spelling on this list.  Those of us with adult
> ADD get
> >> our self-esteem bruised when other's point out
> that we
> >> can't spell for shit or are too lazy to use spell
> >> check.  Here's an article that supports my
> position.
> >>
> >> Brad
> >>
> >>    Spelling bee protesters: "Enuf is enuf!"
> >> By Carl Weiser, Gannett News Service
> >> WASHINGTON -- Protesters delivered a message
> Wednesday
> >> to the national spelling bee: Enuf is enuf!
> >> Seven members of the American Literacy Society
> >> picketed the 77th annual spelling bee, which is
> >> sponsored every year by Cincinnati-based Scripps
> >> Howard.
> >>
> >> The protesters' complaint: English spelling is
> >> illogical. And the national spelling bee only
> >> reinforces the crazy spellings that lead to
> dyslexia,
> >> high illiteracy, and harder lives for immigrants.
> >>
> >> "We advocate the modernization of English
> spelling,"
> >> said Pete Boardman, 58, of Groton, N.Y. The
> Cornell
> >> University bus driver admitted to being a
> terrible
> >> speller.
> >>
> >> Protester Elizabeth Kuizenga, 56, is such a good
> >> speller she teaches English as a second language
> in
> >> San Francisco. She said she got involved in the
> >> protest after seeing how much time was wasted
> teaching
> >> spelling in her class.
> >>
> >> Bee spokesman Mark Kroeger said good spelling
> comes
> >> from knowing the story behind a word -- what
> language
> >> it comes from, what it means.
> >>
> >> "For these kids who understand the root words,
> who
> >> understand the etymology, it's totally logical,"
> he
> >> said.
> >>
> >> The protesters contend that the illogical
> spelling of
> >> English words makes dyslexia more difficult to
> >> overcome and helps explain why one in five
> Americans
> >> are functionally illiterate.
> >>
> >> "If these people were able to read and write with
> a
> >> simplified spelling system, they would be able to
> fill
> >> out a job application, stay employed, and stay
> out of
> >> prison," said Sanford Silverman, 86. The retired
> >> accountant from Cleveland was handing out copies
> of
> >> his book, "Spelling for the 21st Century: The
> case for
> >> spelling reform."
> >>
> >> Carrying signs reading "I'm thru with through,"
> >> "Spelling shuud be lojical," and "Spell different
> >> difrent," the protesters -- who first protested
> two
> >> years ago, but skipped last year -- drew chuckles
> from
> >> bee contestants.
> >>
> >> "I can't believe people are picketing against
> >> something this ridiculous," said Steven
> Maheshwary,
> >> 14, of Houston, who successfully spelled
> "Zoroastrian"
> >> in the bee.
> >>
> >> Or as 13-year-old contestant (tautologous) Rachel
> >> Karas of Flint, Mich., put it: "It's just
> spelling.
> >> You gotta learn it."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> --- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>> According to my Daddys liturature curriculi
> >>> counsellors, administators have succumed to poor
> spelling
> >>> fundimentals.
> >>>
> >>> Bill Effros
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Philip Esteban wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> I am not wealthy by any stretch, but I send my
> son
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> to private school (which
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> means I probably have to postpone purchasing a
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> boat).  My older boy went
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> through the abysmal public school system  and I
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> regret the decision to this
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> day (and yes, I have taught in the public
> schools
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> system and so has my
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> wife).  The public schools have become a
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> politically correct liberal forum
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> for issuing condoms, undermining parental
> authority
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> and values and have
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> drifted away from teaching the fundimentals. 
> Most
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> of this can be laid at
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> the feet of the liberals (usually Democrats)
> who
> >>>>     
> >>>
> >>> are in bed with the
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> teacher's unions.  A union's charter is, by its
> >>>>     
> 
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