[AJD] Being really tacky today

[Brad]

Misspelling these days can only be attributed to laziness. At least with all things electronic. My mail spell checks before I send, if it is elsewhere there is always F7. Of course you have to have a program like Word for that function to work. 
God help anyone should they need to open a dictionary!

Brad Loomis
San Miguel, CA

---- Dean VP <deanvp at att.net> wrote: 
> I'll apologize for being tacky up front on this one. But here goes! I know
> that I misspell words here on ATIS occasionally (maybe often) but sometimes
> it is due to my poor typing skills.  And I don't worry about it a whole lot
> due to a bit of feeling that an occasionally misspelled word isn't going to
> offend too many list members. But I just read an eBay listing for a JD 40 T
> that really struck me as being indicative of what we are graduating from
> high school these days. The person originating the listing admits to
> attending college at the present time. I counted at least 10 obvious
> spelling errors in the listing. He is from Ohio, it appears, but is
> attending college in NY supposedly. 
> 
> I guess maybe I noticed this more due to an experience we had with our
> oldest daughter when she was in junior high school. She just had a heck of a
> time with spelling and after much extra work she ended up in the high school
> honors program and did off-campus accelerated school work. But it took some
> extra focus to get her there. She attended college at the University of
> Washington and graduated with honors with a degree in Education with a
> business minor (Dad caused that minor :-)). She has taught school for over
> 18 years and now is a High School English teacher, has also picked up a
> Masters degree and has enough credits that would qualify her for a Doctorate
> degree but hasn't pursued it. But it just shows that spelling issues don't
> have to be a lifetime handicap.
> 
> BTW, my daughter, to this day, blames Max Raferty who was the head guy in
> the California State School system at the time my daughter was in Elementary
> school. She had a year or two of elementary instruction where the only thing
> that was taught was the phonetic way of spelling. She says it handicapped
> her for life!  :-) 
> 
> But anyway, this particular eBay listing just struck me as being a bit over
> the edge. I'm sure it was triggered by the fact the seller mentions he is in
> college but... what really set me off was he spelled it as "colledge".  :-)
> 
> See eBay auction #  7581656930
> 
> Ok, how many spelling errors did I make in this message?  :-) I know, I have
> it coming. Do it to me! And yes, I know my sentences are too long!  :-)
>