Comments on: To My Spelling And Academic Superiors Way Up North http://cogdogblog.com/2005/02/26/to-my/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:27:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: D'Arcy Norman http://cogdogblog.com/2005/02/26/to-my/#comment-1232 D'Arcy Norman Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/02/26/to-my-spelling-and-academic-superiors-way-up-north/#comment-1232 Oh, the humanity! The speling mistakes in this post alone nearly burst my screen into flames! :-) So... who was it? Go ahead... Out 'em! Heck... I may even now the person (was it Bob in Toronto? he's a bit of a crank...) Oh, the humanity! The speling mistakes in this post alone nearly burst my screen into flames! :-)

So… who was it? Go ahead… Out ‘em! Heck… I may even now the person (was it Bob in Toronto? he’s a bit of a crank…)

]]> By: George Siemens http://cogdogblog.com/2005/02/26/to-my/#comment-1233 George Siemens Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/02/26/to-my-spelling-and-academic-superiors-way-up-north/#comment-1233 Alan, as a Canadian, I must admit that I'm also easily outraged by spelling and grammatical errors. You must understand that when we come home from our long dogsled commute, we can be a bit cranky. Due to our extreme weather, we spend our evenings indoors, surfing the web and trying to make the world a better place through improving grammar and spelling. It's our contribution. Alan, as a Canadian, I must admit that I’m also easily outraged by spelling and grammatical errors. You must understand that when we come home from our long dogsled commute, we can be a bit cranky. Due to our extreme weather, we spend our evenings indoors, surfing the web and trying to make the world a better place through improving grammar and spelling. It’s our contribution.

]]> By: Jason http://cogdogblog.com/2005/02/26/to-my/#comment-1234 Jason Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/02/26/to-my-spelling-and-academic-superiors-way-up-north/#comment-1234 "Just that it will never attain the international recognition that Canada enjoys in this field." Is this a sentence fragment I see before me? I suppose correct spelling is more important than good ideas AND correct sentence structure. We Canadians do great in spelling bees, but we can't write sentences. "The ironing is delicious." Bart Simpson “Just that it will never attain the international recognition that Canada enjoys in this field.”

Is this a sentence fragment I see before me? I suppose correct spelling is more important than good ideas AND correct sentence structure. We Canadians do great in spelling bees, but we can’t write sentences.

“The ironing is delicious.” Bart Simpson

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