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Awww, c'mon Charles. We were getting along very well, living in caves, hunting, fiddlin' with fire, trying out this "upright" thing, etc. Then, a group of elitists (monks, I think, during a candle lit slumber party) decided to cut us out by deciding we should communicate in writing. First scribes, then printing press, then the word processor. We were doomed. New rule, boys and girls - everyone has to learn to read and write or be left behind. Doesn't matter how good a talker you are, the new rule says ya gots ta be able to read it and write it down. Uff dah.

Of course y'all have this handy dandy justification - progress. But I still think it was just an elitist coup to carve away the riff-raff. Sigh!

I have a client who just can't seem to bring himself to read his mail. I understand. I sympathize. He is a good listener, and can out talk all of us at the local diner table (well, maybe not me). But he looks at the envelope, unfolds the paper - words - no, more specifically, written words. And "the system," "this conspiracy of elitists." expects him to sit down and read them. And he looks around - who makes these rules anyway? Was it brought to a vote?

He looks at his cracked and puffy hands. Those hands designed to build, to create, to fight, to fashion, to mold,to waive, to salute, to ask for permission to go to the bathroom, to make shadows on the cave all,to emphasize - and he tries to imagine them picking up a quill. Instead of wringing a neck, he is expected to pluck out a quill and dip it in ink. Aaaarrrggghhhhh! But he knows the fight was lost long ago.

Oh, Charles, you're right.

But as a point of clarification, I think this thread only quite by accident got on this subject.
 
charles if some one can not spell that grate it dose not always mean thay are rebeling or that they deny themselves a good education I have pushed my self for many years to over come my leaning disabilitys no I can not spell good at all however I love to read and have bin very good with my hands for years since I was 13 I have bin bring radios from the 20s 30s 40s and the 50s back into my home and have got them to work agin at 15 I took a rca victor tv from 1948 out of a barn and recaped it and replaced 3 tubes rewound 2 coils and now it is working at factory speks and now I am in the mist of refinishing the wood floors in my moms house that dates back to the 1840s and have relined the wood guters on our house repointed all the bricks in the bacement and next summer I will be scrapeing all the paint on the house and re painting the house I write alot of poetry and if it gets run in the spell checker evry time dose not mean it is not good I have very poor spelling but I am smart none the less who gave you a the rite to teach I must say one thing you have bin schooled by some one WHO CANT SPELL!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Now we're really intersted.

John, if you are thinking your machine is not an O, then we just have to know what it is! Do you have a friend or some way to post a picture - be fun to see it. Take care.

P.S. I work with my hands, too. Click link:

http://www.goodfirm.com/marksart
 


If deficient spelling and grammar are truly due to a learning disability, then yes that is a different matter. And not what I was talking about.

(Reminding everyone that I did not name any names or point any fingers or single anyone out.)

However, I cannot believe that the incomprehensibly bad spelling and grammar littering the internet is ALL due to learning disabilities. If is IS, then we REALLY are in deep doo-doo, because that means that humanity is losing the ability to learn.

Which, as it follows, means we WILL be back to the state of existence so eloquently depicted above by Rocketwarrior. Running around with sticks and spears, dressing in animal skins, living in caves, and grunting at one another.

Personally, I'd rather be accused of being an elitist than a neanderthal.
 
I have aspberger syndrome wich makes it very hard to make frends socialize learn and makes nomal things very hard to do I cant evin go to public school dew to this if you do not know what this is please take the time to look it up I hope you can understand why what you wrote pushed one of my buttons
 
Aspergers

has been discussed at great length both here and in automaticwasher.org. I am not a medical professional so I cannot, would not, presume to offer diagnoses on anyone's conditions.
 
vacuumkid3

I'm not good at things like you. Maybe because I'm an old dude.How do you get your K online w/ the wavey lines? Sorry to be off subject but just wonder. It's all I can do to find the propper keys on my laptop.
Russ
 
Off -Subject

Please, can we get on subject again, or at least be kind with each other? Don't you think older vacuums suck better than the new plastic stuff?


thekiz
 
Off SUBJECT.

Yes, it seems to be bending towards the reason this forum was closed for a while a couple of weeks ago. Come on guy's get the petty bickering out of vacuumland. We are all members for the same reason, and here is not the place to be discussing peoples personal issues.

Well said Kiz,

BTW, the older stuff is FAR FAR better than the new plastic garbage that is mass produced to last 12 months, die, and be replaced.

Hoover model 912 anyday.

Happy hoovering folks.
 
Spelling problems

I at one time got A+ in spelling. After taking Gregg Shorthand (which most people don't know what it is nowdays) I have rarely been able to compose a letter with out many errors. Shorthand actually made you mispell words to shorten them and write faster.. I have known Dr.s that are very well known at that can't even spell the name Doctor.
 
Charles

Another problem today is that too many commericals misspell and butcher the words so badly that sometimes it is hard to tell what the proper spelling really is. Also a problem here in Texas is the Tex Mex spelling of words half spanish and half english.. It's getting to be a real mess here...
 
Well, granted this has veered a bit off-topic,

but I don't hear anyone bickering! I think this has, so far, been an interesting and enlightening - and polite - discussion.
 
Charles

Sorry, perhaps bickering was the wrong word.

I just dont want to see things get ugly and out of hand again, I thoroughly enjoy the privelidge of being able to post here and discuss my favourite subject with like minded people form all over the world. I am proud to be a member, if not a paid up member, and would like to thank you and all the other members of vacuum land who make it the place it is!

I have just started a topic on the model 90 Commercial on wards. Just for giggles as this is my facuorite Hoover cleaner of all time, and perhaps one of the best put together machines of all time!!!!

Anyone interested come along and have your say.

Just a note to vacjwt, PLEASE PLEASE try and get a picture of your mystery machine up for us all, the suspense is killing me!!

Happy hoovering all,

Clark.

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Spelling was one of my few fortes back in grade school and I always prided myself on being good at it. However like Charles said of himself my spelling skills seem to have diminished over the last few years as well. Or it's possible that I just don't care so much anymore. LOL
An interesting thing that probably many people in America don't even know about or perhaps even care is that quite often they are derided over sanctioned US spellings versus the British spelling of certain words. Often as not I'll also see the occasional rant in our local Canadian paper chiding the editor for using an American spelling for a word such as "color". The offended writer claiming that "color" is not the Canadian and hence the proper British spelling of the word "colour". The catch is though that many if not more of these rogue US spellings are the same in Canada as they are in the USA but the affected writer doesn't seem to realize that. Yes we still spell "check, as in payroll check" as cheque like the British do but we do not spell many other British words the same.. For example, aluminum/aluminium, program/programme, curb/kerb, carburetor/carburettor. I had this friendly argument one time with a coworker emigre from Britain claiming that in Canada we use the British spelling. NO I said and I'll prove it whereupon I had to dig out my 1963 grade school officially sanctioned by the Ontario Board of Education Gr. 4 speller which clearly indicated that the Canadian spelling of those words was the same as the USA spelling and also to their horror that it was not incorrect though not common to also spell words like colour, honour, favour etc. without the letter U in them. These words were asterisked to a special note in the book advising the teachers of such.
 

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