Dougy Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 (edited) On the news i see schools are looking at altering the way words are spelt because its too difficult for a few. Apparently it will also help dyslexic people, if you are dyslexic your still going to be dyslexic however you spell things. Edited May 20, 2021 by Dougy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangolin Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 Rae yuo srue thsi isnt fkae news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted May 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 https://www.spellingsociety.org/ Nope not fayc noows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie to this Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 Dear God Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockySpears Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 27 minutes ago, Dougy said: the way words are spelt What is the right way for words to be spelled? 😉 RS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 🌾 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 1 minute ago, RockySpears said: What is the right way for words to be spelled? 😉 RS Hello, I get stuck on some words , Google translator🤔😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrastu Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 Why do we even pander to this idiocy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 4 minutes ago, Ultrastu said: Why do we even pander to this idiocy. You are going to have to be more a little more specific 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrastu Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 The spelling isn't the issue it's the tricky words .why don't we just change all the long words with multiple vowels. Into 4 letter words . Like blip .and domp and dulp and stup that way even the lowest common denominators in society will be able to keep up . OR we can just do away with writing all together and talking and just grunt at each other like we did 2 million years ago . Anybody else feel like the human race reached its pinnacle about 1973 .? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted May 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 1 minute ago, Ultrastu said: The spelling isn't the issue it's the tricky words .why don't we just change all the long words with multiple vowels. Into 4 letter words . Like blip .and domp and dulp and stup that way even the lowest common denominators in society will be able to keep up . OR we can just do away with writing all together and talking and just grunt at each other like we did 2 million years ago . Anybody else feel like the human race reached its pinnacle about 1973 .? Exactly Its difficult to get away from it all though, just this morning i heard a noise coming from someone's lips sounded like emosh !!! apparently short for emotion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangolin Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 3 minutes ago, Dougy said: Exactly Its difficult to get away from it all though, just this morning i heard a noise coming from someone's lips sounded like emosh !!! apparently short for emotion. Dont you mean "totes emosh" = totally emotional haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Dougy said: On the news i see schools are looking at altering the way words are spelt because its too difficult for a few. Apparently it will also help dyslexic people, if you are dyslexic your still going to be dyslexic however you spell things. Although it might seem a strange thing to do (especially if youre the older generation) , i would guess that its just the natural evolution of language , and the written word . if you go back 50 / 100 / 200 years , the English language has changed significantly . many of us here will have read the compleat angler , by isaak walton , and many of us will have been flumoxed by some of it . i work with lots of younger guys at work , and at times , they speak a language that i hardly understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 6 minutes ago, mel b3 said: Although it might seem a strange thing to do (especially if youre the older generation) , i would guess that its just the natural evolution of language , and the written word . if you go back 50 / 100 / 200 years , the English language has changed significantly . many of us here will have read the compleat angler , by isaak walton , and many of us will have been flumoxed by some of it . i work with lots of younger guys at work , and at times , they speak a language that i hardly understand. This. It was inevitable really. The English language is ridiculously and unnecessarily difficult to learn, defying logic in many instances. Together with a generation growing up conversing partly in text, ( LOL, AFAIK, IMHO; there are even some on here who do it ) it was only a matter of time before it evolved further. Some may see it as regression, but Shakespeare is still Shakespeare, no matter how you write it down. It will still sound the same even if it’s written differently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangolin Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 To be fair, as much as people hate the word, I do love the word Yeet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrastu Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 I couldn't read 3 of those dumbed down versions of Shakespeare above. And had to refer back to the correct version for a translation . How thats supposed to help a dyslexic person I have no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 Spell Checker Blues' Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rarely ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect in it's weigh My chequer tolled me sew. Anon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 The theme of this thread cropped up in a conversation this morning, where someone pointed out that our language is evolving all the time, though ever since slowly. An example was ‘aren’t you?’ which I’m assuming is an abbreviation of ‘are not you?’ which in turn is very close to ‘art thou’, which in local Westmorland dialect is pronounced ‘ista?’ Directly translated as ‘are you?’ ‘Howista?’ 😀 Great stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Prawn Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 It will never come to anything, language and spelling do evolve but ever so slowly and over time, to say "we're all spelling it like this now" and get global consensus would involve multi party agreement on a level never previously seen in world history - we can't even get the USA to spell Aluminium properly and that's just one word Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesj Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 22 hours ago, mel b3 said: Although it might seem a strange thing to do (especially if youre the older generation) , i would guess that its just the natural evolution of language , and the written word . if you go back 50 / 100 / 200 years , the English language has changed significantly . many of us here will have read the compleat angler , by isaak walton , and many of us will have been flumoxed by some of it . i work with lots of younger guys at work , and at times , they speak a language that i hardly understand. I read the compleat tangler, does that count? 🎣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 42 minutes ago, bluesj said: I read the compleat tangler, does that count? 🎣 Another fine read 😊. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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