Another English Teacher Comic
You see both solecisms, right?
I don’t need to point out the misspelling and the misplaced comma, do I?
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A Plug for an Article Too Long to Post here
It’s about English’s complicated spelling rules. Here’s a paragraph from about halfway down to get you started. The whole article is worth the read.
The answer to the weirdness of English has to do with the timing of technology. The rise of printing caught English at a moment when the norms linking spoken and written language were up for grabs, and so could be hijacked by diverse forces and imperatives that didn’t coordinate with each other, or cohere, or even have any distinct goals at all. If the printing press had arrived earlier in the life of English, or later, after some of the upheaval had settled, things might have ended up differently.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent
Here’s the link again: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent
—and here’s a picture:
Good Example of Marcom
Marcom is tech-writer-ese for “marketing communications.” We say that all marcom people are insane. That’s our interpretation of their brand of creativity, one part of which is mentioned in this comic:
So what do you think of marketing communications?
Spell Correctly!
Not that you can tell someone’s spelling in a spoken conversation…
Hmm. I think I’ve mentioned “alright” before. The kid is correct, even though it might be a losing battle.
Don’t Trust Your Spell Checker!
Proofreading is an antidote to bad writing. I’ve mentioned spelling checkers before; this reminder is too good to pass up.
