now ttahs a ulesss pceie of inatmiofon

haven't we been here before?

lame.

cisco said...

Just another example of the dumbing down of the general population.

I obviously hold a different opinion, but I think it demonstrates how clever we are as human beings; being able to infer and deconstruct words and sentences which aren't grammatically correct. The same goes with punctuation normally too.

Think of how an average four to eight year old writes; its purely sounding a word out and writing it down as it sounds to them, which generally, will mean their writing literally looks like the paragraph above or the words shortened.

frnd (friend)
aple (apple)
choklat (chocolate) etc.

Mobydisc said...

So the "whole word" approach to learning to read and write has gone and phonetics or a combo is back? Thats great.

What....
I am saying if a child doesn't know how to spell a word when they are writing, they will sound it out, or look at the sound-word pattern within words to assist them.
I have yr6, so rarely have this problem.

I'm pretty sure thats how I learned to read and write too. Learning sounds of letters in the alphabet and how the combination of these sounds make up words. Of course there are many words in English that do not follow convention. However as the first post demonstrates, even if the spelling is wrong, meaning can be conveyed and that is usually the most important point of writing.

yes thats what kids have to learn is the rules to sounding out just like any other spelling rules.