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    Quote Originally Posted by Phaedra View Post
    Though the age thing annoys me too. Age and spelling ability aren't related.
    Except they totally are. There are, of course, plenty of exceptions, but, in general, a class of 11th graders will spell better than a class of 6th graders.
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    :@Dragonprime: People always do.
    I don't think you understand the importance of this. I am older than you, hence I am superior (trust me, it's logical). Now this places me higher than someone who can pass off as a 20 year old badass. Using basic math we can deduce that this makes me the most amazing person on the planet! Isn't it fascinating?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sneak View Post
    This makes me laugh. I hope it wasn't on purpose.
    Not really, as much as I wiish I coul say it was, it isn't.
    I'm battling a really severe headache verging on migraine that I've had for a few hours now and is making my a bit careless and more prone to being weird.
    Hence my sudden acquisition of a paladin class feature that I don't want.


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    To be honest, my attention was just caught by the title.
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    Right. And I'd totally lend it to you after reading it myself, were it not for the inconveniently large distance between Newcastle and Cornwall.
    I know. Shame really, but I'm bettin some people living in ridiculously large countries are reading this and thinking: 'it can't be more than six hundred miles. I could travel that in a day.'
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    Ditto. Also I have a vague recollection of Shadow mentioning it in American Gods, hence interest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechafox View Post
    Except they totally are. There are, of course, plenty of exceptions, but, in general, a class of 11th graders will spell better than a class of 6th graders.
    Well, yes, ok, to certain extent they are. I'm not expecting a 5 year old to spell antidisestablishmentarianism perfectly, no matter how smart they are. But beyond the age of about 11 when you've (hopefully) learned the general rules of your language, there's not much progression on the spelling front.
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    Age and spelling have somewhat of a link, by after a while it's a matter of how lazy and/or smart you are. I remember being able to easily seperat there, their, and they're when I was 7, but most of my friends are lazy and STILL don't know. At 16 that's just disgraceful.
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    Disgraceful indeed. Punctuation rather than spelling, but my GCSE english class had to be re-taught how to use apostrophes
    I mean, seriously. I was all like 'Huh? I learned this 5 years ago. Do you people not have memories?'
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thufir View Post
    Disgraceful indeed. Punctuation rather than spelling, but my GCSE english class had to be re-taught how to use apostrophes
    I mean, seriously. I was all like 'Huh? I learned this 5 years ago. Do you people not have memories?'
    Apostraphes are also something people don't remember enough of. It's not like the rules are complex or anythingwhether it's a contraction or the possessive form of a word.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dragonprime View Post
    I don't think you understand the importance of this. I am older than you, hence I am superior (trust me, it's logical). Now this places me higher than someone who can pass off as a 20 year old badass. Using basic math we can deduce that this makes me the most amazing person on the planet! Isn't it fascinating?
    No, you can't be the most amazing person on the planet. Well, it's possible, since Richard Feynman is no longer alive. But there's still Sam Beam, and Wayne Coyne, and Paul Simon, and Nathan Fillion, and Demetri Martin...right?

    Quote Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl View Post
    Not really, as much as I wiish I coul say it was, it isn't.
    I'm battling a really severe headache verging on migraine that I've had for a few hours now and is making my a bit careless and more prone to being weird.
    Hence my sudden acquisition of a paladin class feature that I don't want.
    Ah. Hope ya feel better.

    Quote Originally Posted by Phaedra View Post
    Well, yes, ok, to certain extent they are. I'm not expecting a 5 year old to spell antidisestablishmentarianism perfectly, no matter how smart they are. But beyond the age of about 11 when you've (hopefully) learned the general rules of your language, there's not much progression on the spelling front.
    Quote Originally Posted by dragonprime View Post
    Age and spelling have somewhat of a link, by after a while it's a matter of how lazy and/or smart you are. I remember being able to easily seperat there, their, and they're when I was 7, but most of my friends are lazy and STILL don't know. At 16 that's just disgraceful.
    Agreed.
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    @ Curly:

    oh noes... don't cry curly lady!

    Yers ma'am, 'n article, like they av on them rumbly wagons, y knorr the articleated ones.

    Actually I went to do a bit of reading and found some fascinating web articles that I have bookmarked for later perusal. And it was all due to your comment about the ize/ise ending piquing my curiosity.



    On the general topic:

    I could not even spell my name properly until I was about 10.

    My grasp of reading/writing was abysmal, particularly spelin and I was put into a remedial class. I much preferred this to proper lessons as we go to play dominoes... Seriously though, this was down to a combination of factors, but mainly poor teaching.

    When I reached 11 I met a truly inspirational teacher. and by the time I was twelve had the reading age (as judged by the schemes the schools i attended ran) of an 18 year old... I read the first three Thomas Covenant books within a few weeks of meeting the inspirational teacher, and after that the Shanara(sp?) Trilogy as it was at the time was easy meat.

    Age may not be the biggest factor in spelling achievement, but it contributes. Exposure to positive influences, practice and good guidance/encouragement accumulate over time.

    I think that I can make myself understood reasonably well these days.


    Edit: I was tied up in knots over whether to use the Oxford Comma in the above
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sneak View Post
    No, you can't be the most amazing person on the planet. Well, it's possible, since Richard Feynman is no longer alive. But there's still Sam Beam, and Wayne Coyne, and Paul Simon, and Nathan Fillion, and Demetri Martin...right?
    Do you think that any I the people you just listed can con an entire forum into electing them Fighter itp?

    Edit: I just got on the plane to Budaspest. Goodbye, I'll see you all in a week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sneak View Post
    No, you can't be the most amazing person on the planet. Well, it's possible, since Richard Feynman is no longer alive. But there's still Sam Beam, and Wayne Coyne, and Paul Simon, and Nathan Fillion, and Demetri Martin...right?

    Ah. Hope ya feel better.

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    My view of spelling is so rigid that I can't understand misspellings, anagrams, and dyslexics' attempts to communicate. The last year or two and its attendant moments of dyslexia frighten me. Something is malfunctioning inside my brain and I haven't got a substitute system for guessing my way to the proper spelling.

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    @^ (and any others who are caused pain)

    I apologise for my wilful spelling, sometimes it's deliberate, some due to me failing my touch typing roll, and others due to sheer lack of gorm.
    Why cannot life be simple? I am simple, therefore surely something that i try to do must also be simple

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    The plane I'm on apparently has problems with the hydraulics, meaning that all us passengers get to wait around for at least half an hour. How wonderful.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dragonprime View Post
    The plane I'm on apparently has problems with the hydraulics, meaning that all us passengers get to wait around for at least half an hour. How wonderful.
    Ah, the joy of plane flights.

    Something always happens.

    In any case, I hope everything gets sorted out before you have to wait too long and that you have a good trip.

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    According to the pilot some paperwork just needs to be sorted out, and then we'll be going. I gotta turn off my iphone now, so goodbye to you all.
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    Yeah, I ended up having to sleep on a couch in Denver! Denver! Because of plane problems delaying the flight and missing our connection. Not fun. Goodbye Dragonprime. Happy Friday the 13th and Death Metal Day.
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    Not fun indeed. :/

    Here's something cool to cheer you up: TA-DA!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dragonprime View Post
    The plane I'm on apparently has problems with the hydraulics, meaning that all us passengers get to wait around for at least half an hour. How wonderful.
    My plane story beats yours!

    We were supposed to fly home from Hawaii at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. We were boarded and ready to go when the flight attendant announced that because of an obscure part that had malfunctioned, we had to get off the plane while they tried to fix it.

    So we sat in the Maui airport.

    FOR SEVEN HOURS.

    It was 8:15 last night when we finally took off.

    We got home at 4:15 this morning, crashed at friends' houses, and got up for the 5-hour drive home. Finally here now, but I'm operating on less than three hours of sleep, which doesn't have me at my best.


    @above discussion (grammar and spelling): I don't think spelling is particularly related to intelligence . . . dysgraphia and dyslexia as evidence, since genius people can have either disorder.

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    @above discussion (grammar and spelling): I don't think spelling is particularly related to intelligence . . . dysgraphia and dyslexia as evidence, since genius people can have either disorder.
    Those are what we call "outliers".
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    My plane story beats yours!

    We were supposed to fly home from Hawaii at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. We were boarded and ready to go when the flight attendant announced that because of an obscure part that had malfunctioned, we had to get off the plane while they tried to fix it.

    So we sat in the Maui airport.

    FOR SEVEN HOURS.

    It was 8:15 last night when we finally took off.

    We got home at 4:15 this morning, crashed at friends' houses, and got up for the 5-hour drive home. Finally here now, but I'm operating on less than three hours of sleep, which doesn't have me at my best.
    Ouch. Have a hug.

    At least the sleep thing will be good for us—I've found that how entertaining a person is varies inversely with the amount of sleep they've gotten.

    @above discussion (grammar and spelling): I don't think spelling is particularly related to intelligence . . . dysgraphia and dyslexia as evidence, since genius people can have either disorder.
    I dunno. I think, at least to some degree, it is somewhat related to intelligence. Dysgraphia and dyslexia are special cases, as they are legitimate learning disability type things.
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    Although no delay was involved, I have an interesting plane story. During thanksgiving weekend of 2008, I was with my parents and younger brother on a plane bound for California because we had plans to visit my sister while she is in college, and go to Disney Land.

    Anyway, on the way, there was an announcement asking whether there was a doctor or pediatrician on board because a child was having difficulty breathing due to an allergy to dogs. I'm not sure about the exact procedure, but my father administered some basic medical care, and afterward there was an ambulance called to the airport.
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    *crickets chirping*
    oh well. I haven't been on a plane ride in a long time. They're fun, tho. Especially when you hit a huge air pocket, and it's kinda like a roller coaster. With no rails. Or real safety guarantee.
    *swears never to get on a plane again*
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sneak View Post
    Ouch. Have a hug.

    At least the sleep thing will be good for us—I've found that how entertaining a person is varies inversely with the amount of sleep they've gotten.
    Thank you, O sneaky one

    Quote Originally Posted by Sneak View Post
    I dunno. I think, at least to some degree, it is somewhat related to intelligence. Dysgraphia and dyslexia are special cases, as they are legitimate learning disability type things.
    An excellent point. I guess my opinion probably makes more sense in the context that I've never had a spelling test in my life...as Ego once said, homeschoolers pwn!

    (or was it Bookman? One of them said it and the other quoted it in their sig. Dammit. Faulty memory systems! )

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    Yes, we did.
    My spelling actually, has seemed to get worse over time. I can spell when I'm just spelling, but when writing,
    So, any dreams involving the playground? I sometimes have them, but they tend to involve being lynched in WW games or banned by Roland. Not always though.

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    On my plane flight home from Brisbane a few weeks ago, I managed to somehow miss the plane by about three minutes. The plane was still there but boarding had closed. The airline, which will remain nameless (rhymes with... Not Jetstar) only had one more flight to Sydney that day, fully booked. It's two flights the next day only had one seat remaining on one and the other fully booked. After pointing out how ridiculously stupid it was to have only two flights going to Sydney per day, I stormed off in a rage.

    After visiting several other airlines and finding out that all of them were fully booked for the day, I was disheartened. That was until a ticketing man told me I could book to go from Brisbane to Canberra and Canberra to Sydney. I should mention at this point that I was travelling with my mate Anuan, who hates flying. I paid for our tickets (he didn't have any money, what was I supposed to do, leave him stranded?), and just at that moment, the ticketing machines broke down!

    So, with two hand written tickets that looked like they'd been made by a con artist, and poorly, we had less than three minutes to check in our luggage and get to the boarding gate. "COME ON WERE GOING TO SYDNEY NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!" I shouted at Anuan, hoisted our collective bags over my shoulder (mine containing a 10kg (22 pounds) set of weights) and ran for the baggage stall. With our bags checked in, mine just under the maximum weight, we raced through security and down the halls of the airport, a large clacking sound emanating from our collective thongs.

    Then we found out our flight had been delayed by fifteen minutes, sat down, and rested.

    The flight to Canberra was pretty simple, except for one occasion. There was a bit of turbulence on the way up, and Anuan said to me, "If we die, I am going to be so pissed." I didn't particularly care or find it very likely until halfway through the light the radio broke out. "Excuse me passengers, we are experiencing some techincal difficulties-" the broadcast came. Oh ****, we're all done for, I thought. "-with the News Tape this afternoon, so we'll be putting a different tape on in just a few moments.

    ...Should have said NEWS TAPE before TECHINCAL DIFFICULTIES, maybe???

    Anyway, we arrived in Canberra, where I quickly spent almost twenty dollars on soft drinks and chocolate bars (we hadn't eaten all day thanks to the constant rush) and soon boarded our flight.

    There was only one problem. It rained. And it stormed. Then it rained some more. It was when the lighting and thunder started to come down that it got really bad. Now Annie, who both hates flying and is a hydrophobe, was suitablly unimpressed.

    Three hours later we arrived in Sydney. It was far too late to catch our connecting flights so we ended up staying with my Step Brother Nick. We got home, book later flights, and feasted on Pizza. I slept soundly for the next 36 hours before eventually returning to Albury.


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    Default Re: Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115

    How about 36 hours of non-stop flights and layovers?(happened 4 times!)

    I had a Thursday that lasted 48 hours.(Happened only twice, and the second time was only about 30 hours and a Monday).
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    I clearly need to fly more often. Mine are usually so uneventful. /
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    Default Re: Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115

    Ahh... reading week.
    And a quiet Fryday evening with some 85%-cocoa chocolate, green tea, and a lap warmed by the gentle purring of my computer.

    What's the good word, my dear banterers? What Fryday news?

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