Tuesday, October 14, 2008

DIE DIE DIE

There is actually no death here, but like Max has shown, titles grab your attention (I hope). In the modern-day, handwriting has gotten to be abominable, grammar is terrible, and spelling has gotten to a low that we are close to the point of no return. Why? It's because of a powerful tool that has advanced and corrected essays for the last 15 years. It's called "spell check." I was listening to Laugh Attack on XM, and there was a comedian that was talking about how he was reading letters and resumes for a job opening and this was what a few of the letters said: "Hello, my name is___. I believe that I would be a good fit for the jog because I fit all the cinnamon. Attached to my is my liter is my restitution. I would greatly appreciate if you could concise me for the job." You see, the bolded and italicized words are all words, non misspelled, but they were the first word that popped into the replace box. The careless person would just keep clicking on "replace" the entire time. In my opinion, not enough spelling is taught in grade school and in high school, no enough attention is paid to it either.

2 comments:

Danny M said...

Although you are making a very good and strong argument, I disagree with what you are saying. I do not believe that spelling tests are the way to solve this issue. I think that more reading will improve the spelling and vocabulary of all students. And honestly, when I used to take spelling tests, I would usually forget the words that I needed to study in about two months.

S. Bolos said...

It's a battle that has been waged ever since the slide-rule.

Does technology make us stupid or does it just take over functions that free our brains for more important tasks?

Think about how you could make this post more relevant to themes of American society.