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Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?

Subject: Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <beth -dot- agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:36:58 -0700

It's actually worse than that. During the 70's many schools
latched onto a harebrained education theory that it was *only* necessary to teach the sounds and that somehow the students would eventually notice the difference in spelling themselves. Do a search on "whole language" reading instruction.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Agnew" <beth -dot- agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca>


I have a theory. (I've _always_ got a theory!) Our multimedia culture full of sound bytes encourages our brains to focus on the sound of things rather than their symbolic representation in text, hence "their" for "they're". Also, we just don't think about it when hurriedly typing, and don't take the time to check. See my archived post on the sleeper effect as well. Next up, the proliferation of text message spelling: Wat u tk bout at?


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