Steely Dan
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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots. - Mark Twain
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But spelling bee protesters? They're out here, too.
Four peaceful protesters, some dressed in full-length black and yellow bee costumes, represented the American Literacy Council and the London-based Spelling Society and stood outside the Grand Hyatt on Thursday, where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being held. Their message was short: Simplify the way we spell words.
Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va. elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell.
Why people need to keep lowering the bar rather than raising it is beyond me. Memory skills are very important to learn and that's something spelling helps with, JMO
My brother saw an interview with a guy who wrote a book on the complexity of the English language. A lot of the spellings that are odd to us have something to do with the early printing presses. A problem with the early printing presses was that letters would bleed over and some spellings had to be made so a word would be legible after printing.
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But spelling bee protesters? They're out here, too.
Four peaceful protesters, some dressed in full-length black and yellow bee costumes, represented the American Literacy Council and the London-based Spelling Society and stood outside the Grand Hyatt on Thursday, where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being held. Their message was short: Simplify the way we spell words.
Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va. elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell.
Why people need to keep lowering the bar rather than raising it is beyond me. Memory skills are very important to learn and that's something spelling helps with, JMO
My brother saw an interview with a guy who wrote a book on the complexity of the English language. A lot of the spellings that are odd to us have something to do with the early printing presses. A problem with the early printing presses was that letters would bleed over and some spellings had to be made so a word would be legible after printing.