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Is Facebook Destroying Our Ability to Spell? IDK, Y U Askin?

by Lee Bains on November 23, 2010 at 09:15 AM

We don't know what the big deal iz, but they're are all these ppl saying Facebook makes our spelling worse. The English Spelling Society says that 66-percent of kidz like us think dictionaries should include "variant spellings" to address common typos. So what do we think? Its whatev.

Tags: education, facebook, literacy, publishing, socialnetworking, spelling, top, writing

source: Geekosystem

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JeffNov 23rd 2010 2:34PM

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No. Facebook is not destroying our ability to spell. Our ability to spell went to hell years ago; Facebook is merely making it that much more obvious.

The option to spell online posts and text messages correctly has always been there, and it's something I've always opted to do. NE1 who chooses 2 spel lik dis is just stupid. Period. But it's their choice to make; it's not the technology's fault.

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JeffNov 23rd 2010 2:34PM

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JeffNov 23rd 2010 2:34PM

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Oh, and our buddy Jake up there? He never knew how to spell Constitution or attention in the first place, and with an attitude like his, it's clear he has no intention of learning how either.

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UberSilNov 26th 2010 3:36PM

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Our ability to spell has never been good. In the eighties it was estimated that up to 30% of Americans were illiterate. Which, of course, means not only that they couldn't spell but they couldn't read either! And of those 70% that could read and write? Alot of them never inflicted their lack of spelling skills on the rest of the world due to a complete lack of easy access to media like Facebook and Twitter.

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Cathy CawoodDec 2nd 2010 6:52PM

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It's worth pondering that the people who 'invented' spelling were not gods, but human beings like us, and that all languages - in both their spoken and written forms - are constantly evolving. So 'text speech' (and that may not be the correct and recognized term) is not the Antichrist, it's just another interesting development. I believe everyone has the right to get creative with the languages they use, and that the litmus test of 'good' language use is whether it accomplishes communication between the user and the recipient.
Shakespeare was just making it up, you know!

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