OOD AV FUNK IT?*
what hope have our children got, or us as parents trying to guide them in the right ways when a so called expert deems it ok to spell words incorrectly?
full BBC report HERE
now i’ll be the first to admit, i have troubles sometimes, usually where the letters i and e are concerned, but to tell us or our kids that it’s ok….thats just madness. as a university law lecturer pointed out, misspelt words could actually change the meaning of a court report, which in turn could have very damaging consequences!
mr smith, a criminal lecturer at bucks uni really ought to have a rethink! it’s bad enough that the youth of today think that text speak (txt spk) is acceptable in the real world, without saying that a total debasement of the english language is also thus!
on a personal note, i’ve just been to wikipedia to try and solve my “i before e” problem, and i’m none the wiser!
A British version is:
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when the sound is ee
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it’s i before e
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except after c
An augmented American version is:
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i before e
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except after c
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or when sounding like “a”
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as in neighbor or weigh
There is also a more sarcastic version, which points out a couple of exceptions:
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i before e
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except after c
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we live in a weird society.
*apologies to anyone thinking that OOD was a dr who reference!
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- 8.7.08 / 6pm
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- jobsworths
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- jobsworths, kids

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