[Rhodes22-list] Satire: Fundimentals

[Hank]

Brad,

Let us know when and where you're flying.  I want to make sure I am no
where near your flight path when your attention span wanders from your
Adult ADD. ;>)

Hank

On 5/27/05, brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bil,
> 
> ar u makin fun uv me cos I wint to colage in arcinsaw?
> havin ADD is no piknik.  Ah wunt my SS disibiliti
> chek.
> 
> Braad
> --- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> 
> > PS.  Adult ADD is Liberal claptrap.  If you can't
> > spell, take
> > responsibility for it.
> >
> > Bill Effros
> >
> > Bill Effros wrote:
> >
> > > Bard,
> > >
> > > I believe when you are dogmatically advancing a
> > position regarding
> > > fundamentals, at the very least you can employ the
> > fundamentals you
> > > are so stridently advocating.
> > >
> > > Michael's spelling is always correct when he uses
> > voice recognition,
> > > and his spell checker won't pick up homonyms or
> > spoonerisms.
> > >
> > > Bill Effros
> > >
> > >
> > > brad haslett wrote:
> > >
> > >> Bill,
> > >>
> > >> MJM's voice recognition software set the curve
> > for
> > >> spelling on this list.  Those of us with adult
> > ADD get
> > >> our self-esteem bruised when other's point out
> > that we
> > >> can't spell for shit or are too lazy to use spell
> > >> check.  Here's an article that supports my
> > position.
> > >>
> > >> Brad
> > >>
> > >>    Spelling bee protesters: "Enuf is enuf!"
> > >> By Carl Weiser, Gannett News Service
> > >> WASHINGTON -- Protesters delivered a message
> > Wednesday
> > >> to the national spelling bee: Enuf is enuf!
> > >> Seven members of the American Literacy Society
> > >> picketed the 77th annual spelling bee, which is
> > >> sponsored every year by Cincinnati-based Scripps
> > >> Howard.
> > >>
> > >> The protesters' complaint: English spelling is
> > >> illogical. And the national spelling bee only
> > >> reinforces the crazy spellings that lead to
> > dyslexia,
> > >> high illiteracy, and harder lives for immigrants.
> > >>
> > >> "We advocate the modernization of English
> > spelling,"
> > >> said Pete Boardman, 58, of Groton, N.Y. The
> > Cornell
> > >> University bus driver admitted to being a
> > terrible
> > >> speller.
> > >>
> > >> Protester Elizabeth Kuizenga, 56, is such a good
> > >> speller she teaches English as a second language
> > in
> > >> San Francisco. She said she got involved in the
> > >> protest after seeing how much time was wasted
> > teaching
> > >> spelling in her class.
> > >>
> > >> Bee spokesman Mark Kroeger said good spelling
> > comes
> > >> from knowing the story behind a word -- what
> > language
> > >> it comes from, what it means.
> > >>
> > >> "For these kids who understand the root words,
> > who
> > >> understand the etymology, it's totally logical,"
> > he
> > >> said.
> > >>
> > >> The protesters contend that the illogical
> > spelling of
> > >> English words makes dyslexia more difficult to
> > >> overcome and helps explain why one in five
> > Americans
> > >> are functionally illiterate.
> > >>
> > >> "If these people were able to read and write with
> > a
> > >> simplified spelling system, they would be able to
> > fill
> > >> out a job application, stay employed, and stay
> > out of
> > >> prison," said Sanford Silverman, 86. The retired
> > >> accountant from Cleveland was handing out copies
> > of
> > >> his book, "Spelling for the 21st Century: The
> > case for
> > >> spelling reform."
> > >>
> > >> Carrying signs reading "I'm thru with through,"
> > >> "Spelling shuud be lojical," and "Spell different
> > >> difrent," the protesters -- who first protested
> > two
> > >> years ago, but skipped last year -- drew chuckles
> > from
> > >> bee contestants.
> > >>
> > >> "I can't believe people are picketing against
> > >> something this ridiculous," said Steven
> > Maheshwary,
> > >> 14, of Houston, who successfully spelled
> > "Zoroastrian"
> > >> in the bee.
> > >>
> > >> Or as 13-year-old contestant (tautologous) Rachel
> > >> Karas of Flint, Mich., put it: "It's just
> > spelling.
> > >> You gotta learn it."
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> According to my Daddys liturature curriculi
> > >>> counsellors, administators have succumed to poor
> > spelling
> > >>> fundimentals.
> > >>>
> > >>> Bill Effros
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Philip Esteban wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> I am not wealthy by any stretch, but I send my
> > son
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> to private school (which
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> means I probably have to postpone purchasing a
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> boat).  My older boy went
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> through the abysmal public school system  and I
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> regret the decision to this
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> day (and yes, I have taught in the public
> > schools
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> system and so has my
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> wife).  The public schools have become a
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> politically correct liberal forum
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> for issuing condoms, undermining parental
> > authority
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> and values and have
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> drifted away from teaching the fundimentals.
> > Most
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> of this can be laid at
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> the feet of the liberals (usually Democrats)
> > who
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> are in bed with the
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> teacher's unions.  A union's charter is, by its
> > >>>>
> >
> === message truncated ===
> 
> 
> 
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