Orthography
I can't spell. It's true. I think a monkey could spell
better than I do. I don't know why. I'm not dyslexic, I don't have a learning
disability, but I couldn't mess up a word worse if I threw it in a blender and
hit frappé.
DeWitte's been blogging forever. It always seemed like a
ton of fun but I hesitated for a very long time because of this
spelling problem. I watch him type up a post and am amazed that he doesn't even
need spell check. He's like a spelling bee that way. Now that Nathan's
reading and writing, it's clear he hasn't picked up this horrible trait I have.
It seems to come to him pretty naturally...thank goodness.
It's annoying for one thing. Is it decieve or deceive? I
before E except after C or when sounded like a as in neighbor or weigh. Hmm.
It's annoying to have to check and recheck every word I write, and even
then I get it wrong. I'm sure it's annoying to DeWitte, I have to have
him check every post before I make it public. I'll hear him chuckle sometimes at
how badly I've butchered a word.
It's embarrassing for sure. I felt sorry for Dan Quayle
when he made that potato remark. I know what it feels like to feel like a fool
or an idiot because I spell so badly. I'm not a great fan of his but it's too
bad that that one remark is one of the few things anybody
remembers.
So many people have a pet peeve about bad spelling. I
know, I'm overly aware of it every time someone mentions it. I don't IM anyone
but DeWitte for fear of outing myself as "stupid" or "careless" or
"incompetent". I know when he makes fun of me, he's not trying to be
hurtful.
It is easier with all the modern day spell
checks. I write most posts in an email box to use the spell check but even then,
the word is spelled so badly, it has no idea what I'm talking about. Google is
really good a deciphering my blunders but even then I sometimes have to type it
in two or three different ways. In high school though.. ugg. I just found a
paper from my music theory class. I aced the class but it wasn't because of my
spelling. That thing had red marks all over it. The answers were right, but the
spelling was atrocious! I obviously wasn't as self conscious about it then as I
am now.
Well, I've decided to do something about it. I found this
book called "Morrison's Sound-It-Out Speller: A Phonic Key to English".
Now that Nathan is learning to spell, I don't want him thinking I'm an
idiot.. at least not until he's a teenager!
(There were 14 miss-spellings in this post and that
doesn't include decieve...nice.)
Comments
I can't spell either. I ALWAYS have dictionary.com open whenever I'm typing a post. Then, after I'm finished, I hit the little spell-check button vox has about 4 times, because it seems to only find a certain number of spelling errors each time you click it. Then I click Post and reread my entry, and then I have to click the edit button a few times to correct the back grammar I found. At least in the end I look intelligent. Hopefully.
(spelling corrections needed before posting this comment - 3)
He's dyslexic yes, but I don't think to any huge degree. He works very hard at spelling things but we take comfort in the fact that the ability to spell is not indicative of someone's intelligence.
Before my son, I will confess I used to wonder why people couldn't take the time to spell things correctly. I didn't think it was because people were stupid, I thought it was because they didn't care. I have a thing about spelling things correctly, but that's me. As I go through life I am learning that I have less and less in common with general society.
My son opened a whole new world to me. I've learned that if someone is able to say something in a clear manner, yet their spelling is terrible, they are most likely incredibly intelligent. As in: too smart to bother with spelling correctly! :)
spelign is so ovreaeted. motsly this is becuase poeple whoo aer goof at speleing aer inkliend to cunsidre that a werd eggsists fromm beginingg to end but donut se that it has a meening beyond the fondetic. thats becuz they lernd to rede too erly or ther mom was a peyano techer.
good luck with that program. hope it doesn't reroute your brane to our peril -- we were kind of depending on mark twain with a spell-chek to continue in the vein of brilliant vox entries...