People these days scare me.

[Organic Shadows]

Not you guys, of course, but kids and everyone in general can't speak or spell.

How do you spell... (these are things my STUDENT TEACHER and classmates always spell wrong)

Definitely? D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y

Address? A-D-D-R-E-S-S

Picnic? P-I-C-N-I-C

A lot? A THEN L-O-T

Things like that just.. ugh. There are so many more, but I have eaten massive amounts of sugar today, so I can't think of that many more.

Discuss.

Edit: I realize that people just don't think it looks wrong, but it bothers me all the same. I'm not that mean.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

marlyse412

Not you guys, of course, but kids and everyone in general can't speak or spell.

How do you spell... (these are things my STUDENT TEACHER and classmates always spell wrong)

Definitely? D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y

Address? A-D-D-R-E-S-S

Picnic? P-I-C-N-I-C

A lot? A THEN L-O-T

Things like that just.. ugh. There are so many more, but I have eaten massive amounts of sugar today, so I can't think of that many more.

Discuss.

Edit: I realize that people just don't think it looks wrong, but it bothers me all the same. I'm not that mean.

I believe in Jesus Christ, my Savior. If you do too, and aren't scared to admit it, then copy and paste this into your signature.

Picnic? I've never seen anyone get that one wrong. How are people spelling it, "piknik"?

The "a lot" one used to stump me. I always thought it was a compound word. Heh heh.

 

[Harimad-Sol Lin]

marlyse412

Not you guys, of course, but kids and everyone in general can't speak or spell.

How do you spell... (these are things my STUDENT TEACHER and classmates always spell wrong)

Definitely? D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y

Definitely is always a word I have problems with. Whenever I go to spell it, I always want to spell it definately. I have to pause and think about it and then I can write it the correct way.  

[Prince Platypus]

Yami no Hitokiri

marlyse412

Not you guys, of course, but kids and everyone in general can't speak or spell.

How do you spell... (these are things my STUDENT TEACHER and classmates always spell wrong)

Definitely? D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y

Address? A-D-D-R-E-S-S

Picnic? P-I-C-N-I-C

A lot? A THEN L-O-T

Things like that just.. ugh. There are so many more, but I have eaten massive amounts of sugar today, so I can't think of that many more.

Discuss.

Edit: I realize that people just don't think it looks wrong, but it bothers me all the same. I'm not that mean.

I believe in Jesus Christ, my Savior. If you do too, and aren't scared to admit it, then copy and paste this into your signature.

Picnic? I've never seen anyone get that one wrong. How are people spelling it, "piknik"?

The "a lot" one used to stump me. I always thought it was a compound word. Heh heh.

Where I'm from, people say a lot all as one word, so if you were trying to write in dialect, then alot is fine. 3nodding  

[Aithera]

I used to misspell definitely. But I don't anymore.

Definitely = finitely + de at the beginning.
That's how I remember.

Really, how does one misspell picnic?  

[Organic Shadows]

My student teacher spelled it wrong again today, spelling it like "picknick," also spelling "embarrassment" wrong. She spelled it "embarasment." Ugh.

Also, my trick for spelling definitely is the word "finite" in the middle of it.  

[s0prano42_x3]

I think the only one of those that I had a hangup on was "definitely." But I definitely don't anymore. mrgreen Haha. I crack me up.  

[SilverBellsAbove]

Myeh, I'd taste a lie to say that I haven't spelled those wrong before. But mostly it's due to either A) a temporary brain lapse or B) Being lazy and not using spellcheck when I make a typo or C) not being awake.

I can spell fine, I just have to think for a second on the harder ones. My mouth and my hands (whether it's pen or keyboard at hand) work faster than my brain and it makes me go all ackwards-bay, if you know what I mean.

Then again, there are just some words that I always flub up. I think everyone has at least one. They tend to come and go for me; if I type one enough the problem goes away. But then a new one comes up... sweatdrop Forgive me, I'm a total dipwit.

Yes. Dipwit. That's now totally legit, folks. ninja  

[zingebar]

I swear, at least half of the Physical Education department at my school is illiterate.  

[-l- Eli -l-]

I don't think "writing in dialect" justifies spelling "a lot" as "alot." The only thing writing it that way would accomplish is getting across the speaker's ignorance of how it's -actually- spelled.  

[Sanami2315]

I know. I'm writing a piece for my newspaper about the failure of our public education system.

The only thing I can't stand is when I come across horrific misspellings in typed papers. How does someone see all those red marks and still hit print? And even if he doesn't have a program that uses them, he should get one! There are plenty for free.

How about this? "Firey". GOD, I HATE THAT.

And worse, "Gooder".  

[Organic Shadows]

Firey?! *runs*

And another that I like to point out is "misspell."

HOW CAN YOU MISSPELL MISSPELL????


Edit: Kudos for writing to your paper wink  

[Sanami2315]

Thank you.

I just heard the stupidest thing of the day, no matter where you are:

"Which is more gooder here? I can use a comma or a half-colon thingy. Or does a dot work? Which is gooder?"

That's just...wow. It's making me wish I was illiterate.  

[Ksenia Sergeevina]

I have trouble with definitely, however, the rest should be easy.  

[Organic Shadows]

Oi, that's... Oi. Where'd you hear it?