How can someone graduate from college when they can't even spell it right?
How can someone graduate from college when they can't even spell it right?
There are just too many of my peers who're taking engineering or computer science or chemistry who still can't manage to spell simple words or, in some cases, even string together a sentence that makes sense.
Does this piss anyone else off too?
If you spell "college" as "collage," while you're in college, then you just shouldn't graduate...ever...
Does this piss anyone else off too?
If you spell "college" as "collage," while you're in college, then you just shouldn't graduate...ever...
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hehehe, c'mon man don't get pissed, it's bad for your health.
As for that... just figure this out... I'm in the last year of the High School; next year we're supposed to go to the college, and some of my classmates can't EVEN read a simple sentence correctly.
Now, THAT'S annoying.. and it kinda dissappoints anyone because you think: "What the hell for am I studying so hard if those ****ers are here with me without doing a single thing?"
As for that... just figure this out... I'm in the last year of the High School; next year we're supposed to go to the college, and some of my classmates can't EVEN read a simple sentence correctly.
Now, THAT'S annoying.. and it kinda dissappoints anyone because you think: "What the hell for am I studying so hard if those ****ers are here with me without doing a single thing?"
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Re: How can someone graduate from college when they can't even spell it right?
Originally posted by Sir Auros
There are just too many of my peers who're taking engineering or computer science or chemistry who still can't manage to spell simple words or, in some cases, even string together a sentence that makes sense.
The chemistry case I understand. There is a sating "good scientist's can't spell". Its pretty true and there is some suggestion of evidence backing this up on a genetic scale among males in particular.
Elsewhere as an educationist you should know of the increasingly accepted work of Howard Gardner and his work explaining the 7 (now 9, I believe) Intelligence's?
http://www.ed.psu.edu/insys/ESD/gardner/menu.html
http://www.swopnet.com/ed/TAG/7_Intelligences.html
Some people don't have a learning style that's visual or Linguistic enough to be able simply spell to any adequate level.
We accept many people won't be great musician's so we must accpet that many will be hardly able to spell but brilliant elsewhere. Why should their talents not be judged in the context of their subject as opposed to being judged on 'written english'?
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Originally posted by Jetfire 2.1
We accept many people won't be great musician's so we must accpet that many will be hardly able to spell but brilliant elsewhere. Why should their talents not be judged in the context of their subject as opposed to being judged on 'written english'?
Well, okay. I'm not good spelling in english because it's not my language, and I'm also a fried potato in Math and physich and everything related to the sciences and right I'm not judged as an idiot because I can't do a simple ecuation without using a calculator or because I have a bad grammar in english.
But I'm good at the arts and philosophy and such, which is what matters.
I know everyone learns their own way, I learn by just listening and by reading a bit.
There's people that can learn just writting what they listen, or just reading, or just listening or even just watching.
I understand that noone is a god to know ALL, but still is a bit annoying when someone can't do something that is (Or we think it is) easy.
But what to do but get mad when they are not good at anything?
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teh nice thing about programming is that you can mispell teh varible numerous times. as long as teh keywords are spelled corretctly, it does not matter if you spell teh varible, as the misspelling becomes teh correct spelling and all is well until you correctly spell the varible, at which point teh compiler crashes.
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Re: Re: How can someone graduate from college when they can't even spell it right?
Originally posted by Jetfire 2.1
There is a sating "good scientist's can't spell".
The job of a linguist is be able to spell "logarithm"
The job of a mathematician is to be able to calculate it.
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