Spelling

[Olivia]

What are your biggest problems with spelling?

How important is spelling compared with pronunciation, vocabulary, punctuation, etc.?

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I am a great speller. I spell most words correctly. I rarely see that red squiggly line that pops up when you misspell a word.

How important is spelling compared with pronunciation, vocabulary, punctuation, etc.?

I think they all go hand-in-hand. Equally important.

 

[Hulk's iconHulk]

i dun no wut da wurs ding bout spelen iz

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

i dun no wut da wurs ding bout spelen iz

 

[Hulk's iconHulk]

wut

 

[Dee]

Spelling comes pretty easy to me, but I understand it's difficult for others and try not to point it out too much.

 

[ElegantAura]

I must say, my spelling isn’t bad, I’m actually quite happy with how good I am.
Sure, I make mistakes, and there are some words I don’t know how to write, but overall, it’s not too bad.
Grammar and other things are more of an issue for me, but oh well… I guess for someone who never really studied English, I’m doing okay.
Now, in my own language, I think I’m pretty good at it!

 

[passenger]

Seems that so many words in the English (American) language that sound the same are spelled differently.

OTOH

 

[DrLeftover]

My spellchecker hates me. And with good reason.

I posted this after a lengthy bit of research and writing over a year ago:

Well. First off, we had just finished doing the in depth study of Revelation. Which was a good primer for the (long term, in depth, Word for Word study of the) Minor Prophets. Oh yeah, John's epic Apocalyptic Vision, with all its wild imagery of the End of Mankind due to Divine Intervention causing dramatic Climate Change (that has nothing to do with the burning of coal we might add) was a good warmup for what turned out to be the preliminary for a lot of that, the Book of the Twelve.
But there was a downside: All of the references in Hebrew, and Greek, and some Latin, and the 1560 and 1611 English (as seen in the quote above) KILLED the primary word processor used during the work. Yes indeed, it toasted itself. More times than we can count there would be the cheerful message on the screen that there were too many errors on the page to keep checking spelling and grammar. And in most of the Minor Prophet sections, they were only five or six pages long. Finally, it quit working all together, and we had to do a total uninstall, wait a couple of days, with total power downs and so on, then do a total new re-install to get it to work again.
Well, that, and a lot of junk food such as spicy pork rinds (while reading ancient Jewish apocalyptic poetry, no less!), peppered beef jerky, hot cheese curls... for some reason, the Minor Prophets call for a lot of spice... a good deal of truck stop grade black coffee, and no small amount of high test bourbon.

minor prophets, in depth study, index

bible study lesson, index

centralparkchurchofchrist.org

 

[MamaFrankie]

Spelling has always been my strong point. But I realise that one person's idea of correct spelling may not be another's, as exemplified by the difference between British (the spelling I use) and American spelling.

 

[passenger]

Spelling has always been my strong point. But I realise that one person's idea of correct spelling may not be another's, as exemplified by the difference between British (the spelling I use) and American spelling.

I have found that Canadian differs a bit too.

 

[MamaFrankie]

Don't Canadians use British spelling?

 

[DrLeftover]

And don't forget the differences in The Land Down Under.

 

[KO896]

I used to win a lot of spelling contests in school and had a lot of fun. These days, I do tend to google words that I don't use often to make sure I'm correct, but that's because my memory isn't so great after some cancer surgeries. But I'm still pretty good with most words.

As for comparing to pronunciation, grammar and punctuation, I think it really depends. I have a friend from high school who types so oddly that I have NO idea what he's saying. So spelling would be important in trying to communicate.

 

[passenger]

Don't Canadians use British spelling?

That very well could be; I guess I've just noticed the differences with what I know, which is American.
Then, I have noticed their proverbial - Eh?