The Illiteracy of Teabaggers and 9/12 Protesters
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(Editor's note: We have seen a number of signs from teabaggers and 9/12 protests. Their creators took considerable time and effort to make those signs. But they didn't always spellcheck them. We received a nice collection of these misspelled signs. Enjoy!!)
First brain available goes to this guy.
Yes, those who watch Fox "News" are often "infromed" about current events. But check out the upper left corner of the sign. This person misspelled the country that God should bless.
It is "are" country. Just because we can't write the language doesn't mean you shouldn't speak it.
Hey, no gender bashing, please. Whatever you have against men isn't very nice to say on a sign.
"Competnce" is something we all should to strive for in our lives.
She doesn't want "amnety" and she shouldn't be forced to accept it, whatever it is.
The English language is often "offical" when first learning it.
Do you need to produce a birth certificate to prove you can spell that phrase?
Unlike the signs, this is more embarassing since this message will last longer.
Another two-error sign, but to be fair, six words are spelled correctly.
Listening to these people has been a "hugh" mistake.
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Oh those signs are really
Oh those signs are really funny. Have you been involved in an automobile collision on the streets and also found yourself in search of car accident solicitors? You've come to the best place. You could potentially claim compensation for any accidental injuries you could have got if the accident was not your own fault.
The first thing you notice
I second that bullshit.....
I agree.... some of these are bullshit. The last one is definitely photoshopped, and I remember seeing a couple of these before...lol. Nice try though.
Did you even read my reply to the previous poster?
It isn't obvious bullshit, you are merely jumping to conclusions.
Bullshit
I'm calling bullshit. The very first pic. (get a brain morans) was being passed around the internet years ago, well before Obama was elected, well before the first teabag protest, well before 9/12. The last one looks photo shopped. How many more of these are bullshit?
Failure to prove conspiracy (necro'd)
The picture, from the "Hugh" conspiracy, was taken with a low resolution camera and was obviously constructed by printing the words on a printer, cutting around the letters, and pasting it to poster board. This is proven by the "CA" in "AMERICA" and the "KE" in "MISTAKE" showing up askew...having occurred because those words would be too long for a printer to print considering their large font size. One can surmise that a printer, when low on ink, will produce a faded color. Therefore, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the maker of the sign printed the word "HUGH" prior to replacing the ink on their printer or printed that word last.
It was NOT "photoshopped" since the pixels around the words are the same minus the poor resolution warp. In order to get the pixels to be that uniform, one would have to be quite adept at Photoshop or other similar program.
Teabaggers
What do you expect from white trash?
Weak
Try as you may, the 9/12 March on Washington was a significant event, and unlike other protests I've monitored, these people actually made their own signs rather than having unions print them for them. And some of the examples you exhibit i.e the "HUGH PROBLEM FOR AMERICA" are so poorly Photoshopped I'm surprised you're willing to include them.
Also, of all the hundreds of thousands of signs at this rally, if this is all the spelling issues you can find I'd say any English teacher would be proud to have so few errors among such a relative sample in their classrooms.
Very weak argument you have here. Quit dissing average Americans and listen to what they have to say instead. They're trying to save your sorry asses.
The average American
...Is statistically stupid. "USA scores the lowest in national average IQ among the developed countries of the world, at a national average score of 98. The data is obtained from IQ and Global Equality by Dr. Richard Lynn".
I am not sure what you are trying to save me, personally, from.
Funny/Not funny
I could not help laughing while reading these carefully-constructed signs. Maybe the makers were a little too emotional to check the spelling which, in my mind, means that they're a little too emotional to think before they act. As hilarious as these signs are, one picture is extremely unsettling to me, and it is something I have seen right next to my home town. The sixth picture from the top ("No Amnety") includes a picture of a little girl holding a "Honk for English" sign. The girl looks about 5-6 years old (give or take a year?) and, somehow, she's suppose to know and understand why she is there and why she is holding up that particular sign. Am I wrong in assuming that it wasn't her choice to be there, much less understand why she's there?
In West Bend, I saw several children around the same age holding up pictures of mutilated babies as well as signs which said "Planned Parenthood, Planned Murder". Regardless of what I think of the subject, I think there's something seriously wrong when parents are forcing their children onto a busy intersection to hold up signs proclaiming their own personal propaganda. When children are that young, they know they are suppose to obey their parents. They know they like to play with friends and stay up late when they can. They don't know, however, how to deal with complex issues like politics and abortion. So why are parents assuming that they do and taking advatage of their power as adults? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the parents couldnt find a sitter. But I know that staying home and taking care of your child is a far better choice than coercing him/her to fulfill your own personal agenda.
Noticed This Long Before Now
Ever listened to these same people on C-Span in the morning? No wonder they loved "W." They speak the same language. But never mind their inability to spell. They sure have the ability to listen to Faux Noise and Limbaugh and other hate-mongers and the hate is going to destroy this country.
I am far more concerned by the atmosphere of ignorance and hatred than I am their ability to spell. Like Nancy Pelosi, I was living in San Francisco when George Moscone and Harvey Milk were assassinated, their assassin got off with a slap on the wrist and all hell broke loose. It was ugly....horrible...all of it. I was one of the few of my friends, at the time, who remembered the hatred, so thick in the air, when Jack Kennedy was assassinated. Then there was Dr. King and, finally, Bobby.
Now, every time my president is speaking any where my heart is in my throat. I understand why Obama doesn't want the race card played right in the middle of this vital debate about health care, if one can actually call it a debate. But I cannot help but be scared for him and for our country. If anything happens to him, I doubt that any of us will, again, fall for the lies. The nation will fly to pieces. No one will wait for yet another whitewash commission.
These pictures are funny but...
Here's the disturbing thing about these pictures, I worked under more than one supervisor at the Postal Service whose grasp of English grammar was at the level exhibited by the above photographs. I also worked along side carriers with similar deficiencies in English usage and spelling. And, yes, many were hardcore right wingers and the irony of working for an agency of big government never crossed their minds.
But perhaps that is what is at the root of some, not all, of the "fear" and animosity coming from the right, these people, the folks in the photos above, really do know they are not all that well educated, that the status quo has been good for them and they are watching it erode before their eyes. As Frank Rich observes in his column today,"Many of those Americans may hate Obama, but they don’t love the Republican establishment either."
At the root of the anger on the right, Rich concludes, is a growing awareness that our government no longer acts for the interests of the people but for corporate interests and Wall Street. And on that point I believe most Buzzflash readers agree.
ET Spoon
book-larnin'
If you disdain "pointy-headed intellectuals" and "book-larnin," as a large percentage of Americans do, this is your voting public. Did we not love Bush II because he made decisions with his intestines, not his "brain"?
Morans and teabaggers
which is worse, a moran, or those who make fun of the unedumacated ?
Rebuttals
Karen, I placed a review of Beck's Common Sense book on Amazon. I received similar rebuttals. These people prefer to argue, regurgitate polemics, and hate than discuss ideas and facts. Engaging these people is just not worth the effort.
Bad spelling
By coincidence I read today that 23% -- nearly 1 in 4 -- American high schoolers could not name our 1st president.
Is it any wonder that these tea baggers would conflate communism, socialism and fascism as "the same thing"?
I've heard seniors on Medicare, Social Security & VA medical complain about "socialism" and how they don't want to see any of it in their country.
They're angry people -- some angry with justification -- but pointed to the wrong sources of their discontent by demogogues like Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Savage.
Behold the fruits (and nuts)
BEHOLD YE THE ROTTEN FRUITS (AND NUTS) OF CHRISTOPATRIOTISM, THE INVINCIBLE STATE RELIGION OF INVINCIBLE AMERIKA, WHEREIN IMPENETRABLE IGNORANCE ART THE GREATEST CIVIC VIRTUE.
It is painfully clear that these fine fine folks art virulently proud of their jingoistic patriotism and their insular jesusism in this, the land of the ignorant, home of the gullible. One religion alone is crippling enough but when the national state religion of amerika consists of the merging of two religions, Christianism and Patriotism, in which ignorance art deemed the greatest of all peasant virtues, our "patriotic" corporate aristocracy have us right where they pay "hugh" bucks to keep us, blissfully groveling for the precious droplets of liquid gold body waste they so Reaganesquely trickle down upon us, their expendable farm animal peeons.
give them a brake
Those folks who should go back to school and enroll in “English as a first language” don’t amuse me very much.
They are the products of a school system engineered by well-educated and literate people to create a class of manipulable sheep who don’t possess critical thinking skills.
These well-educated and literate people took their marching orders from extremely well-educated, articulate and literate people such as William F. Buckley.
And Buckley and his ilk served people who live in castles and would rather not be known to the public.
They are fighting health care reform today. Next, they will be trying to kill energy/environment reform. And after that, financial, education,…..
If we are so damn smart, let’s figure out a way to harness the justifiable anger and frustration those less-literate folks sense, and re-direct it against the appropriate targets: the moneyed interests. We won’t convert them all, but it would be a fine coup to move them over to our side. We can learn ‘em inglusch any time. first let’s help ‘em put the X by the correct names on their ballots.
You would need a TV network, GPN
These folks watch a lot of television. One could start a cable channel, God's Patriot Network. It would have a bunch of religious programming with icons wrapped in red, white and blue. It would also need to have images of things blowing up and wild fires, etc to appease the groundlings. Very subtley over time, the message shifts from state-sponsored religion of blessed be the Peace Keeper missiles to Jesus' actual message of blessed are the peace makers.
You've got that right
Boy, do you EVER.
I see a coffee table book coming for the holidays.
One title perhaps, "They Walk Amongst Us." Profits could go to charities.
I read this bumper sticker once.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
to which the response might be
"your the ignorent one, you hatter." So their!! Hah. That was actually fun.
Hate Hate Hate
War is Piece; Freedum is Slavery; Ignerance is Strength.
And Orwell was RIGHT
He was a visionary. It just took a little longer for things to happen, that's all.
Nat'l Language under Obama
National Language for Democrats: Muslim
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National Language for Republicans: American
It's scary that these people
It's scary that these people are actually having an effect on the national dialogue. Only in America.
More pathetic evidence that
More pathetic evidence that our education system is in dire need of reform - no commentary needed; the signs speak for themselves.
"In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." H.L. Mencken
As an English teacher I
As an English teacher I often wonder if one of the issues (the others being the U.S. becoming a more visually oriented society, parental apathy or hostility, social malaise,and lots more) isn't the constant waves of reform inspired by politicians, none of which may be competent, but all of which are never given enough time before the next wave comes through.
Who knows. If every one would just leave us alone, and maybe even expect parents, not school systems, to raise their children, maybe we could gain a little headway.
I'm not holding my breath.
Politicians love using educators as expendable pawns.
digits
i concur. As a teacher of English, I apologize for my profession. We are as obliged to teach the mother tongue (and the use of dictionaries) to people with two digit IQs as we are to those with three.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." H.L Mencken
Teaching at Collidge Levuhl
Seriously...I teach Spanish at a State University. Mostly to freshmen.
Recent example of the situation to a class of 22 students, trying to explain that the form of the verb implies the subject, so the subject isn't necessary.
"Yo" no es necesario porque es implicito en el verbo.
I got blank faces from implicito after repeating and repeating it. Finally I wrote it on the board, assuming they'd of course chop the pesky "o" off and see the English word...not a chance. TWENTY-TWO 18-24 year olds did not understand the word "implicit"...I had to explain it!!!!
Another time, I asked them to identify the direct object of a sentence (in English) just to iron out the details...after first selecting the subject, then the verb, they finally found the direct object in the sentence "I gave an apple to my mother."
They're so bad that they will do their homework on Google translator and not catch their English spelling mistakes (even with the prevalence of Microsoft word corrector) so that I get hilarious "translations" like "i obtener pollo", perhaps for "i get chicken"...or, "Mi freind es muy inteligint" ...it goes on and on...How do I teach them Spanish working with the pitiful English framework they have?
Don't forget that many
Don't forget that many Americans used to get their knowledge of grammar reinforced by high school latin. Both of my parents were required to take latin in high school as were their parents. By the time my sister, who is three years my senior attended, latin was an elective only open to college prep students. When I entered high school, latin had been dropped entirely.
Being a social worker who works with delinquent youth, I remember being amazed a few years ago that only a couple of the twelve girls in the cottage I then supervised could define a noun or a verb. When I mentioned 'gerund' the girls were unanimous in their opinion that I had invented the word myself.
When, at a parent-teacher conference, I mentioned the gerund anecdote to the English teacher of one of my brightest kids, I was amazed that the ENGLISH TEACHER had no idea what a gerund is. The teacher was in her mid twenties. I remember feeling very old that day.
If one were to ascribe to a conspiratorial mindset it would be easy to assume this "dumbing down" of America has been intentional. The corporate powers that be are certainly benefitting from it.
Teabagging Morons
To be fair, the picture of the idiot with the sign "get a brain morans" has been around for several years. It was NOT taken at the teabag circle jerk in Washington recently. Not saying it couldn't have been...but this picture wasn't.
Morans
That sign was spotted in Ft Worth TX 2007 repub straw poll. I was there. Ron Paul won by a huge number and they shut him and his supporters out.
I signed on to the Sarah
I signed on to the Sarah Palin Facebook Fan page on Saturday, just so I could comment. The following is just one exchange. I also got an email that resulted in some back and forth. By the end of the day I had been blocked from the site.
Karen Hogan
Facebook exchange
Karen Hogan Vern Robinson -- It's spelled Kool Aid. I became a fan so I could comment. You LOST the election. Nothing was taken away from you. More people voted for Obama than they did for McCain and Palin. I am no fan of Sarah's because she is cynical. Remember, this is a woman who put her special needs child at risk by getting on an airplane while she was in labor.
Chantel ClausTHANKS FOR HELPING US REACH 1 MILLION!!!
DONATE TO SARAHPAC.COM :) You sound like an angry liberal feminist! I am sorry you had nothing better to do then to come here and post a comment. I was so sure you had something to protest... You know like the surge in Afghanistan by your Messiah- Obambi... Have a good day sweetie PIE!!!
Dwain RobertsOur founding fathers created a limited federal government in order to protect freedom. You cannot have a paternalistic federal government with unlimited power and be free at the same time. It is not possible.
Suzette MoutonKaren, you are in denial!
Tom SloanKaren are you a woman hatter? Is that your shtick?
Pat CavanaughWell now that BHO has been outed and going down in flames; we're even ...there, u feel better now?
Aaron KrohnI'm sick and tired of libs using Trig Palin to try to make some point. Trig is a happy, healthy, beautiful 17 month old baby, who's loved totally by Sarah and Todd (and his brother and sisters!!). And by the way, a "fan" is someone who supports and believes in the one she/he follows. You obviously do not, so "Quit makin' things up!".
Miracle Ericksen SharpKaren that Obama won is irrelevant have you seen the polls catalouging his support especially among the all important independents? That this country remains conservative is indisputable. You concern for another mother's well-loved child is amusing. I don't suppose you also fret about all those aborted children that Obama dosen't believe has any rights.
Karen HoganChantel, it's spelled Obama, not Obami. Tom Sloan, no, I am not a woman hatter. I'm not sure what that is. Dwain, what freedoms are you missing?
Deanna BoadwineKaren- Get a life! Get off this site and go with your other clue-less liberal friends that if left to figure out the paper bag you would have to ask. If she had to she could deliver that baby herself! I'll pray for you to see the light and not get futher lost in the darkness. Real-women support each other!
Michelle Dumas BarbayOh please. If that is the best you can come with. She got on a plane. This from a woman who most likely believes in murdering babies in a procedure labeled as abortion. As for cynical, never saw it myself, but judging from the look on your face, I would have to say you are a very bitter person. I'll take cynical over bitter any day.
Hyman RothKaren, take a gentle laxative and call me in the morning.
Karen HoganDeanna, I have no idea what you meant to say in that second sentence.
Constance SullivanIs a woman hatter someone who makes hats for women? BTW the President's fan page has 6.6 million. You folks need some perspective.
Sandy Putt SandvikMore people were coersed into voting/submitting bogus votes for Obama so he could win......so he could give the American people............this wonderful change. Unreal. Wake up Hogan and if you don't like Sarah......go to Obama's site and chat.........nobody wants to hear your personal attacks on Palin........and why personally attack Palin, are you worried that a great American might threaten you Messiah? Smell the coffee...........
Ellen Lazarus BronsteinUm, not many more people voted for Obama. Who are you to judge Sarah for getting on a plane while pregnant (if that's true)? Very petty (as most libs are)!!! Come up with something intelligent to say please.
Deanna BoadwineThat doesn't surprise me Karen. You seem to be in the dark.
Constance SullivanMy OB-Gyn advised me not to travel in the last 2 months of my pregnancies. Gov Palin admitted that she was in labor when she boarded a plane back to Alaska after a speaking event in Dallas. It was extremely unwise, given the advice that the doctors give to their pregnant patients.
Patti WoodwardSandy......I couldn't have said it better! Took the words right out of my mouth!
Good Bye, Karen! You're not welcome!
Dwain RobertsKaren:
I have about 50% of my labor extracted from me and given by force to others, including those who take the lives of innocents. I live in a sea of government regulation at work, and the constant threat of punishement from the federal government. My children are not free to express their true beliefs at school. Workers are forced to give their money to union bosses so that they may have the right to work. I t goes on and on.
Karen HoganI will refrain from correcting spelling errors.
Patti WoodwardKaren: Better still.....stick with us! You might even change your mind about all the corruption going on in our Country...not only in Washington and the Federal level, but the State level as well!! Believe me........you won't be sorry! Obama is not fighting for YOU! Sarah, Glenn Beck, and others like THEM, ARE!
Ellen Lazarus BronsteinOh, because you are so highly educated Karen. LOL. When liberals have nothing to say, they start correcting your grammar. It's hillarious.
Deanna BoadwineConstance: OMG if thats the best dirt you can come up with on Sarah, thats really funny. If your doctor told you to abort your baby because it would have downs would you do that too?
Hugh WonderlyYou are truly an idiot Karen. Hasn't it ever occurred to you that eing on the wrong side of everything isn't a good way to live. You are a spiteful little witch who hates herself and so needs to spew on everyone to make yourself feel better. But it never lasts and you have to do it again. Seek help. A lot of help.
Karen HoganWell, clearly, education does not seem to be a value to Palin fans.
Aaron KrohnOne more thing...Sarah is in great physical shape...always has been. Been a star basketball player, ran track and cross country, has run marathons, fishes, hunts, AND she runs circles around POTUS and other libs on the side!!! Hell, she could probably have squatted down in some rice field, like Vietnamese women supposedly can, gave birth, and went back to whatever she'd been doing. Sarah is strong, in mind, soul, and body!
Ellen Lazarus BronsteinWhat a bizarre insult. Do you have factual data to back this up or just your emotions telling you so?
Karen HoganUncle.
Email exchange:
Ida Chidnese September 12 at 10:32am Report
your a hater who drank the kool aid grow up your not the editor in chief of other peoples mistakes so stop correcting and start informing yourself of the truth
Karen Hogan September 12 at 10:41am
It's "you're" not "your" (twice) and it's "people's" not "peoples". As for being a hater . . . well I think you need to listen to what you all are saying.
Ida Chidnese September 12 at 1:08pm Report
i rest my case. you are also well you know exactly what you are
Karen Hogan September 12 at 1:13pm
Exactly what or who is it you think I hate?
Ida Chidnese September 13 at 6:18am Report
SINCE YOU CAN NOT HELP YOUR SELF WHEN IT COMES TO GRAMMER, YOU ARE PROBABLY VERY BORING. THAT WOULD MAKE ME A HATER. TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND AND TRY DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE MAYBE FIND SOME FEELING FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE UPSET WITH THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS CRONIES YOUR SELF SERVING CHANGE YOUR WAYS. TRY TO BE LESS OLD. YOUNG UP!!!!!
Karen Hogan September 13 at 8:51am
It's grammar, not grammer.
Not all conservatives are
Not all conservatives are idiots but all idiots are assuredly conservative.
Two-error sign actually has three errors
Grammatical error rather than spelling error, but still an error.
Good point
You are correct. This is what we get for trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Still an error -- that is correct.
Humor not lost on me, but....
I appreciate the irony of the English Only folks with incorrectly spelled signs. However, a word of caution: As a linguist, I must say that attacking someone's idiosyncratic spelling and speaking quirks is no more a valid argument against their position than (the GOP's) strawman attacks - as mentioned by another blog post today on Buzzflash (Ms. Smith...).
Are-our confusion reflects a pronunciation shift that cannot be attributed to stupidity. "Infromed" and "Amensty" are potentially products of a dislexic mind. The woman who wrote "COMPETNCE" clearly ran out of room on her sign and made the logical choice of dropping the "E" to maintain pronunciation.
Don't get me wrong. The arguments these people are espousing are disingenuous and misinformed at best. And, I am not attacking the poster of these pictures as this is hardly the first time I've seen some of them or other incorrect signs in the previous weeks (or years for that matter). My purpose in writing this comment is to highlight the problem with like-minded liberals, centrists and non-self-identifying free thinkers is that we need to act more. Why are we not protesting? Why do we continually fall back on the safety of ridiculing the tea party and 9/12 protesters (and their funny signs) from our desktop rather than confronting (in a democratic way) their arguments in the public arena where 'are' voice can be heard? We are probably suffering from a confusion as to what we should be speaking up against...
In the end, though, we're no better than "them" if all we do is attack the weakest aspects of their arguments, namely their diction, pronunciation and orthographic-prowess. So how about this...why don't we have a protest against ignorance and at least start taking up the cause of better public education (to eliminate some of those pesky spelling errors) and more accountable media (to eliminate some of that pesky ignorance).
I think you meant "dyslexic".
I think you meant "dyslexic".
...and assuredly did not
...and assuredly did not mean to put the hyphen in "orthographic-prowess."
I'm not even a self-described linguist, and I at least know that much. Sheesh.
Good Points
While I appreciate your call to action (and caution regarding indulging in petty ridicule at the expense of substantive argument), I can't help but notice that conservatives do seem to have a fairly consistent inability to properly utilize the English language; frequently demonstrating a feeble grasp of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Though this certainly indicates a failure of the American educational system -- English is often mangled by Americans of all political stripes -- it does seem especially prevalent among conservatives (in my experience).
As Frank Shaeffer pointed out recently during an appearance on the Rachel Maddow show, "...within our culture we have a subculture which is literally a fifth column of insanity that is bred from birth, through home school, Christian school, evangelical college, whatever, to reject facts as a matter of faith." I suspect that this "rejection of facts" includes a rejection of correct English language usage (perhaps considered "elitist?").
Thus, I think that the apparent inability of these so-called "tea baggers" to speak and write English properly is a symptom of much larger problems -- problems in education, certainly; yet also a fundamental failing of the conservative ideology (particularly the evangelical religious conservative ideology). These people seem to be, not just misinformed, but willfully and proudly ignorant. Therefore, I believe they deserve our ridicule and mockery. To respectfully defer to these people in any way, in my opinion, is to not only give undeserved credence to their misinformed ideas, but to further the culture down the road toward a less articulate, thoughtful society.
So, I say let's do both: let's mock them AND stand up for better education and more competent journalism.
to me, these grammatical errors
and misspellings also represent anectodal evidence of confused minds. While diagnosed, legitimate conditions like dyslexia might explain some of the letter-reversals and omissions, for instance, they can't account for all of these mistakes. So the natural suspicion becomes: what do not merely the content but also the incorrectness of these signs demonstrate about the brains which produced them? I see it as evidence of more than a lack of education - perhaps an education which never took hold.
Protest to raise awareness...
...of the plight of Tea-bagger errors. It'd be satyrical and a jab right at them.
The banner would look like so:
"Please come join our rally with the goal of improving public education and general information in the media so signs like these [insert replicas with photoshop] don't continue to ruin the reputation of Tea-Partiers. Help us raise money so that Glenn Beck and his followers can get a real education. [insert pitiful picture of him crying - shouldn't be hard to find]"
Great idea...
Also, since I'm not a prescriptivist when it comes to language, I'll defend these tea-baggers a bit more. Spellings such as "are" (for our), "a extremist" (instead of 'an') and "Ameirca" all show anything but conservatism when it comes to the English language itself. Oddly enough, those spellings reflect a PROGRESS-ion in the spoken language, try as grammarians might to stop it. Eventually our spelling system will have to be reformed as it is already some 300-400 years behind actual pronunciation.
If such dirty, heathen, dark-skinned languages as Spanish and Portuguese can be reformed as recently as this decade, I think God's language, the language of the Bible (hehe) and Freedom can also be reformed to match pronunciation...
Yesterday
Yesterday I couldn't spell patriot, today I are one!
Hugh Mistake
I love the last sign. A hugh mistake? Wait'll Huge Grant hears about this.
Dave von Ebers