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Originally Posted by Kitsune
In a parallel universe exists the exact opposite of a forum spelling nazi. Instead of correcting errors in other people's posts, they attempt to correct the language, itself. We may be witnessing the opening of a gateway...
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Not an awful lot different from the change in the way kids are taught to read, write and spell. That also went from one extreme to the other and now I think it's settling down a little to find a happy medium. I hope. I found the "kidspell" thing weird at first, being another fortunate who has no problem with spelling, but having seen how it helps them have confidence in expressing themselves, it's grown on me a little. But not enough to want to "simplify" the language to a kidspell version. Learning to spell after they've learned to write their ideas down seems to encourage the children to use and then learn to spell words that they might have otherwise avoided, and learning to spell after they've learned to read is so much easier because they already 'know" the words. I'm speaking solely from my observations here. I have no paper to cite on this.
And while I'm offering anecdotal evidence, back to reading and spelling only being distantly related, my 5-year-old can read pretty fluently, (probably at what is officialy 2nd grade level) but spells entirely without vowels and only manages about two thirds of the consonant sounds. If people cannot confidently read a newspaper, it's not necessarily the complexities of the language at fault.