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Correct TO THEM.
I didn't say it makes them correct. But TO THEM, they are. It obviously wasn't what they were taught in school (or what they learnt, for as many reasons as there are people who aren't perfect at spelling).
Yes, there are special needs classes in today's schools, of course.
The teacher does their duty as far as they can, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the pupils come out perfect. Spelling just isn't everyone's thing.
All right, if she's not trolling, why else does she want to make such a stupid fool of herself on the Internet for all the world to see? Has she no self-respect whatsoever? I've seen down-and-out alcoholics in the street who have more self-respect than that.
"Could've" does not sound like "could of", especially in the North where vowel sounds are very clearly pronounced. The "'ve" in "could've" sounds like a short "a" and not like an "o", whereas the "o" in "of" sounds like a clearly-pronounced "o". It is very easy to tell the difference between those two vowel sounds and very difficult (if not downright impossible) to confuse them.
How could anyone forget they are contractions? What else could they be? Elephants? Diesel locomotives? Refrigerators? Of course they are contractions. Lol:)
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I like that word "antsy". Lol:)
It's not a "fault" to be like that, PeaPod. If it was me I'd have said he was to thank for me being like that (as opposed to him being to blame for it). My dad was a signalman on the railway, so maybe that's why I've always liked trains since I was a child, but again that's a good thing so it's not my dad's fault, I have him to thank for it. Lol:)
Andy, "my own experiences have proved to me time and time again that it's true" - this is the very definition of confirmation bias.
My own personal experiences have also proved to me time and time again that dogs bark and cats meow. Is that confirmation bias as well? Or is it just a simple fact?
If that's the level you're going to argue at, just never mind.
I was just being sarcastic because you were trying to instil something in me which I did not already believe to be true. At least that was what I perceived you were trying to do. If you are going to make attempts at swaying people while poking fun at their own beliefs, expect sarcastic responses.
No, it's just another way of ensuring perfection (or the nearest we can get to perfection). It has nothing whatsoever to do with sex. On second thoughts, the language of sex has been somewhat corrupted over the years by the frequent use of vulgar and obscene words for the sex act itself and various parts of the body, and such words do take away at least part of the aesthetic beauty of sex. It can be easily restored by using other words that have a more aesthetically sensitive sound. Similarly, the aesthetic beauty of conventionally-spelled English words is destroyed by spelling them incorrectly but it can be restored by spelling them correctly. That was the main point of this question in the first place. I wasn't thinking about anything to do with sex when I posted it. I don't know what it is about some people, but they have to look for a sexual connotation in everything when there wasn't one to begin with. I believe Sigmund Freud was like that. Lol:)
"Frude" was a joke that too many people have taken seriously, so I have decided to leave Bill and Ted behind and focus on "Dude Where's My Car" instead. Lol:)
Ha ha. I really do say it tongue and cheek. I learned more from my dad about speaking and writing from anything I learned in school. And yes, I am actually grateful that I have any desire to always improve myself.
That's good, because I never learned anything from my dad that would have got me a job on the railway. It's one of the many "specialist jobs" that I am not qualified to do. I have to be content with whatever unskilled jobs the employment agencies can get for me in this day and age. Lol:)
Jaimee is more feminine than Jamie, that is why I prefer it, it is actually on a lot of birth certificates here in the US but not on mine, on mine it is Jamie. I went to high school in the 90s with a girl who spelled it Jaimee, and it in certain ways it made me feel self-conscious that mine was wrong.
I don't know what is wrong with autocorrect other than at times it can get things completely wrong. When I try to sign into sites where my username is hami1091 on my phone it usually wants to change it to Hamilton. I have no clue why it does that. It can be annoying and not worth my time to try to sign on to the sites from my phone, and makes me at times wish we had an app to see if it would do the same with an app.
The old adage - "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Some of the answers to your question could be quite complex.
On EP there were a large number of people with dyslexia. They were there because one of EP's behind-the-scenes-guys was one of the world's top experts on the problem, and was encouraging them to join in, in order to develop better social skills through practice with reading and writing in a social context.
Correct spelling is a matter of historical convention only. The many deviations from standard rules of pronunciation make it one of the hardest languages for foreigners to learn.
Others, especially younger people, may have different views about spelling: that it doesn't matter as long as the meaning is understood, that phonetic spelling is more sensible, or that abbreviations save time.
For me, there is nothing inherently beautiful in our spelling. Even the exquisite penmanship in illuminated manuscripts is insufficient for me to see the words themselves as beautiful solely on account of how they are spelled. This is partly because I see the forms of the letters as another accident of historical evolution rather than aesthetically designed. I find Arabic, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy beautiful, whether I understand it or not.
For me the beauty of English lies in its vast vocabulary, flexible syntax, and the potential quality of the way the meaning is expressed.
At the moment I am very dissatisfied with the way I write. I find myself focusing so much on the content of the thoughts I wish to express that I don't take enough time to edit for conciseness or to find more interesting ways of expressing the thoughts.
