Sometimes its something a person has difficulty with, like say me.
I have a degree in space science and I've been doing electronics type 
stuff since I was in high school, I still have trouble spelling 
"electricity" and "engineer". In year 5 in primary school (I was 7 or 
so) I had a reading age of 16 which was as high as the test went. 
Throughout high school I had after school classes in spelling and hand 
writing but I had to take my HSC ("school leavers") tests with the aid 
of a computer so that the assessors (assesors) could read my answers.

Though I have found inline spell checking has improved my spelling 
dramatically mainly due to having it pointed out instantly I feel and 
being able to correct it. I have bracketed all the spelling mistakes I 
have made in this post just for interest with the correct version next 
to it, without the inline spell check I wouldn't have found them.

So do spare a thought (thought is my word of the month, I keep spelling 
it thaught) for those to whom spelling doesn't come naturally.

That said I find incorrect grammar or "txt" speak incredibly irritating, 
that really is not putting in the effort in my mind.

That said my father for some reason has terrible difficulty writing 
messages, He is very mechanically (mechanicaly) smart and is handy with 
a turn of phrase in the verbal arena, but ask him to make a post on a 
forum (something like this) and it comes out as an almost indecipherable 
(indeciferable) hash of missing words. If you ask him to read what he 
has written he reads out all the missing words, even in a message he 
wrote 6 months ago.


pic@gavin-egan.com wrote:
> I think I saw that advert or one very similar. Every day I read in horror
> the spelling mistakes throughout NZ in both job advertisements, product
> advertisements and don't even mention trademe.co.nz (NZ's version of Ebay)
> where the worst variations on phonetic spelling can be found. 
>
> Quite frankly the spelling in this country is abysmal whether its down to
> laziness, or lack of eduKayshun I'll never know. 
>
> Scary really !
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
> cdb
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:23 PM
> To: PICLIST@mit.edu
> Subject: [OT]Sorry this job advertisment - oh the gran ma (sic)
>
>  This is for an E-Learning support specialist to provide support and 
> training within a school environment.
>
> ' You will be reponsible for the support and training of the 
> companie's software e-learning products directly to end users 
> (schools) You will be.... '
>
> Whoops no running through the spillchuker then! Perhaps the author is 
> learning Dutch or one of it's offshoots for the spelling of companies 
> (I really feel a J should be in there) , even though it is the wrong 
> suffix.
>
> One also requires a ...
>
> ' Perfect Communication skills
> a Teachning Degree (essential) '
>
> to even get your foot in the door. 
>
> And, one would want to work for the company because ...
>
> ' This is truly a solid opportunity to grow your career and skills in 
> a fantastic company with internation clients.
>
> Interview will be happening next week for the right person so apply 
> now to get more info on the job!! '
>
>
> Internation clients, now is that ' clients ' spoken with intonation 
> using various accents?
>
> Obviously they only expect one person to apply.
>
> I really must get employment soon, these job adverts are driving me 
> crazy!
>
> Colin
> --
> cdb,  on 8/04/2009
>
>
>
>   

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