Why is abbreviated such a long word..

college kicked my ass...

cause of shit like that..

:ssmokeit:

 

makes things harder than they need to be..

don't gotta make such a hard world..

life does this..

doesn't need to be as hard as it is. this is how it is..

where is my thank you letter for pay taxes... nobody gets those..

so taxes should mean.. wearefuckingyouoverandtheirnothingyoucandoaboutit.

 

lol...that's why its better (or easier) to put abbr.

Currently in school the kids aren't even being taught its important to spell correctly. I HATE THAT!

Some kids I know were told by their teachers that if they spelled a word phonetically IT WAS OKAY. (Guess that's what is meant by the dumbing down of America.) I told the same kids "its not okay with me!!!"...but it didn't matter because I'm not their teacher.

 

Abbreviated has to be some Latin word.

My first grade grandkids have a sight word list.

The girls have been given 500 to start with and can read all of them.

The boy is not in advanced class but he can read all 200 his class has been given so far.

Kids are getting smarter and smarter.

 

People also wonder why 'little' is twice as big as 'big'.

 

This kids just look at you when they are rolling along reading phonetically and something like "know" comes up.

I tell them that it's another one of the words that you can't make sense of so you just have to memorize it.

 

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I wonder if they get penalized for spelling the word correctly.

I am sure it would still not fly at a spelling bee. :2thumbsup:

 

lol...I wish these kids around here had to go to a school like the ones Aeri's grandkids go to!

Honestly, I get the impression that the teachers (one in particular) aren't very good spellers. One even indicated that computers had "spell check"! I was the ONLY one that didn't like that nor find it amusing. Yeah, I'm a real kill joy.

The kids I'm talking about are 2 boys that are the grandchildren of my best friend. She acts a little concerned - not nearly as concerned as I want her to be. lol Basically my friend and her daughter seem (to me) ridiculously happy that the boy's don't get anything taken off for misspelled words as long as it is spelled phonetically.

 

Haha.. that is so sad and pathetic.
No wonder I keep out-Englishing the native English speakers. Even their teachers have given up! The amount of times I've had to explain English words to Americans and Brits.. it's enough to make you depressed.

And yet if I were to try to get a job as an English teacher, I would be considered after a native speaker who no doubt is still confused by they're/their/there.

 

Spell phonetically, huh? you mean like GHOTI???

That's GH as in rouGH ... O as in wOmen ... and TI as in staTIon. Got it??

And then, there's different pronounciations. If we all spelled phonetically, there'd have to be two different spellings of "tomato" (unless the Americans are all suddenly going to start pronouncing it correctly ... which I some how doubt) and no end of different spellings of some other words.

And don't get me started on the assistance you get with an unfamiliar word's meaning if you can recognize it as coming from French, or Latin, or Celtic, or Norse ... and the spelling will help you there no end.

But yeah ... "abbreviated" needs shortening.

And in similar vein, why is "short" a longer word than "long"?

 

Just imagine the new dictionary. It is bad enough that they add words every year.

 

Why is eon such a short word

 

I always thought English was your first language.

 

I can understand the use of teaching spelling phonetically when children are first starting to learn as it is a tool. Once vocabulary increases it is a detriment as many words that are used daily do not translate phonetically.

We all tend to rely on options like spell check probably more than we should. I have personally had some real bloopers using it.