For those who have problems spelling

[Side Show Bob]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
In waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is  that the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig huh?

[kahuna]

Is that why you call yourself Bob?

Easy to remember that the big "B" comes first...

[TTChang]

(Side Show Bob @ May 21 2009,10:32) Fcuknig amzanig huh?

Not really .... Donnnnny has been using this lingo for ages

[Torurot]

Since TXting it's become easier to read.

[bigmick22]

this is old news - was posted last year

[Lefty]

I think my older brother PigDogg posted this here back then.

[Lefty]

I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

[Road Runner]

I used to write operating instructions for some seriously heavy machinery.
When you write things like that you sometimes are so involved with the document that you can't see the mistakes or bits that don't make sense.

Luckily one of the guys I was working with was a born and brought up Welsh speaker. He only started learning English from 5 years of age when he started school.

It meant that he had to read something in English properly and convert it in his head.
I used to stick what I had written under his nose knowing full well he would immediately spot anything that did not scan correctly.

Funilly enough his own English grammar could be described as a little peculiar.

RR.

[strocube]

Spelling in English is fucking hard for me. It is partially phonetic but mostly it is not. The sounds of the vowels seem completely arbitrary, and I can never remember where and when to use double consonants.
If it were not for spell check I'd look like a total fucking illiterate.
I seem to have some kind of a problem with spelling, in that I have a hard time spelling even the simplest word out loud; I have to write it down.
This is especially annoying since I make my living with languages.