If you were stuck on a desert island, could you write a message in a bottle — or a term paper — without an assist from Google’s “Did you mean . . . ?” Spelling has become something of an extinct art: of 2,500 adults tested recently by Whitesmoke, a writing-software company, 40 percent couldn’t spell “questionnaire” and 38 percent “accommodate”; 15 percent put the “i” before “e” in “receive.”
via www.nytimes.com
Handwriting and spelling are becoming lost arts. Oral communication may be replaced by texting too!
OMG! IMHO U R right! AAYF Brent
Posted by: Brent Hailpern | November 02, 2009 at 02:19 PM
Our language will survive:
Who knows where thisquote comes from and approximately what year?
Heere bigynneth the Knyghtes Tale
Whilom, as olde stories tellen us,
Ther was a duc that highte Theseus;
Of Atthenes he was lord and governour,
And in his tyme swich a conquerour,
5 That gretter was ther noon under the sonne.
Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne,
What with his wysdom and his chivalrie;
He conquered al the regne of Femenye,
That whilom was ycleped Scithia,
10 And weddede the queene Ypolita,
And broghte hir hoom with hym in his contree,
With muchel glorie and greet solempnytee,
And eek hir yonge suster Emelye.
And thus with victorie and with melodye
15 Lete I this noble duc to Atthenes ryde,
And al his hoost, in armes hym bisyde.
Bob D
Posted by: Bob D | November 04, 2009 at 06:59 PM