Monday, May 10, 2010

People who cannot spell

What's up everybody, I guess I'm going to start blogging a little bit more frequently, I hope you don't mind it. Why should you mind, it's not like any of you read this anyway...which begs the question why am I writing? I don't know, but today I want to vent about people who cannot spell. I actually started this yesterday, but due to some physical complications I didn't finish it. The complication was that my body wanted to sleep and instead of fighting with it, I let it win this time. To continue, I find it hard to believe that everyone in this day and age does not have a computer that will put a red line under every misspelled word. Since this is the case, about 73.283994029% of Americans must be color blind to red on white. I find it hard to believe that with technology where it is, that so many people still misspell words. Everything has a spell check (and if it doesn't, learn how to spell or type everything into MS Word or Pages or something), so either we are the laziest group of people in the world (because we won't move the little pointer to the symbol that checks our spelling and grammar), or we are the stupidest group of people in the world (because we can't spell and we can't figure out what the thing that says "ABC" means). Someone please tell me why it is impossible for people to put an apostrophe, one of these thingies ', for a possessive noun or when omitting letters from words or numbers. And how come we no longer know the difference between your and you're and use the previous for both instances. I don't think it's coincidence that we are last amongst the world's educated and why we import people to perform jobs, or outsource the jobs to people, for customer service. I know we all want to say it's for cheaper labor, but you have to admit that command of the English language, more specifically the American dialect, is necessary. Looking at the writing of a majority of our citizens, especially our young people, we are not even close to the level of others who are learning our dialect as a second or third language.

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