[AJD] Being really tacky today

[Hans Krueger]

I just use the rednck dictionary

Duane Ledford wrote:

> Hukt on fonikx werkd fur me!!!!
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
> To: "AT JD" <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 3:03 PM
> Subject: [AJD] Being really tacky today
>
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>> 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!  :-)
>>
>> Dean A. Van Peursem
>> Snohomish, WA 98290
>>
>> Forbidden fruits create many jams!
>>
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