Spelling

            Spelling in life doesn’t seem like it would be all that important, I mean we start spelling tests and everything as soon as we learn to write. But that’s the thing, no one really seems to know how to spell anything. So why are people unable to spell simple words anymore?

            The major thing is that people will talk face to face and use that as a form of communication. The other big thing is more people text, tweet, email, and communicate through electronics. Now that’s the thing you think that since people would be using these devices that it would increase their ability to actually spell words correctly, but it doesn’t. Spell check is used widely now usually before you send something via electronically then you’ll spell check it if it’s an important email or in cases of texting you’ll use texting lingo which usually no one uses correct punctuation, grammar, or even spell words correctly since no one wants to take the few extra seconds to actually type on their keyboard correctly. This was very common in some of the first cell phones since spell check wasn’t a real big thing a couple of years back, but now with cell phones like the iphone it automatically corrects your spelling errors, so that there is no need to know how to spell. Honestly, it’s pretty pathetic if you get some people to try to spell simple words and they just can’t do it! It’s like they never learned the rules to grammar and keep an e in a word that you’re supposed to drop off the e and just add ing.

            But if you go on Twitter or Facebook or any other websites (maybe even possibly blogging) people are spelling words incorrectly and it’s getting to the point where it’s just incredibly sad since some people are in college and high school and they can’t even spell words like management correctly. Texting and texting lingo has completely altered the way people write papers even during class. For example a teacher tells a student to handwrite a paper and the student will want to type it on the computer since there is no spell check when you handwrite a paper. I think it would be very interesting to see the differences between a paper typed up on the computer and a handwritten paper to see how many words people spell wrong. Even in books now in days, it’s really easy to find errors in books, publication companies need to hirer better people to check for grammatical errors and spelling errors all throughout the book because many books I’ve read before have errors.

            Overall, in high school language arts teachers should start with spelling tests again because it’s pretty pathetic if people are spelling even simple words incorrectly, just look at what some people have posted online, it makes absolutely no sense!