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[John in San Diego]

Okay, if you really want to see phonetic spelling, check out some of 
the writing of Melvil Dewey, the guy that gave us the "Dewey Decimal 
System of classifying books (library). He was a true believer in 
spelling phonetically, his prose is damn near unreadable.

BTW, phonics rocks!

John in San Diego


On Aug 5, 2004, at 4:31 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 07/27/04, Steve Talkowski wrote:
>>
>>> Think yourself lucky, a few years after I left school - the kids were
>>> taught to spell phonetically. These people are now in the work place 
>>> -
>>> cheering us up with mispelt words. I think if you are expecting
>>> everyone to spell and use words correctly then you are going to be
>>> upset sometimes. Ignore it or live with it.
>>> Its the little differences that make people interesting.
>
> You've got it backwords. Learning to spell/read phonetically leads to
> correctness, whereas the whole language approach is the one leaving our
> youth illiterate, as demonstrated daily in education reports.
>
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