atw: Re: Free speling (sic)

Wow! The things we could do with this principle. Why stop with just
spelling? 

Seeing as most people cant perform brain surgery or rocket science, let's
just stop teaching them! 

No-one really understands what politicians or lawyers do - lets abolish them
too. 

Great. This means I can give up on technical writing, no-one needs us
anymore. No-one reads the manuals or help system anyway - just employ a few
more help desk slaves on minimum wages and you'll be fine. Not that we need
much software anymore, I mean word processing just got tossed out the
window, see most people don't understand typography, grammar, spelling,
styles or layout so 99% of the functions of a WP are now unneeded.

Hell, this is such a fundamental paradigm shift in our language I suggest we
rename English to Newspeak and forbid words like Terrorist (the politically
challenged) and Juvenile / Geriatric (age challenged).

Steve Orwell



-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Hadden

You might be interested in this site, which promotes the idea of spelling
words phonetically, to suit the audience:
http://www.freespeling.com/

The site makes some good points, such as:
> only 17% of native English speakers can spell the following six words 
> correctly:
> Height, necessary, accommodation, seperate, sincerely, business Which 
> of those is spelt wrong? Yes, separate!

[I came across the above URL in John Walkenbach's blog. He's a Microsoft
Excel MVP and has written dozens of books about spreadsheets, including
Excel VBA Programming For Dummies. His blog is at:
http://www.j-walkblog.com/blog/] 


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