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Only on Fox & Friends. This morning they did a segment on the English language and that there are a lot of words that many people find difficult to spell correctly. I stopped on monkey. I'm including video to complement the comedic irony.

Steve Doocy says that another word many find difficult to spell is the word soldier, because the "i" throws people off. The former beauty queen then pipes up and says -- "Well, the D. There's no D in it." She follows that up by asking if they even make "hardcore" dictionaries anymore. Be sure to hang on (if you can make it) for the finale as Doocy decries:

"So many people are trying to dumb down America and the world! Just leave it the way it is! Study your books, people!"

Teh stupid...it hurts.... This is just screaming for a "Write Your Own Caption"



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i didn't see this on c&l, so i thought i'd share it...

obama speaks to campaign staff @ chicago hq after securing democratic nomination

Have a laugh, the primary is finally over.

Welcome to the dumbing-down of America.

...and the hits just keep coming, from the Fox Comedy Channel (formerly Fox News)...

So Republicans are too damn dumb to spell. We know this from our resident trolls. What else is new? So much for the English Only crowd. Next time you hear a Conservative bitching about Ebonics, you can bring this little gem up.

The Douche strikes again

It's hard to decide who is more stupid, Doocy or Kilmeade. E.D. Hill was right in there on the stupid meter as well, and now she's gone.

These people are so annoying.

Wait a minute, that's not how you spell "douchey".

She absolutely BECOMES her 'blondness'!....And never neglect the fact that olks have been speakin' English for "thousands" of years....UhHuh!

the most interesting name i saw floated today for obama's vp was bill nelson, the senior senator from florida.

centrist democratic, former astronaut, 75% favorable rating from naral, vocal opponent of florida off-shore oil drilling, demolished katherine harris in 2006.

i also like the idea of taking the fight directly to mccain's old retiree base.

*democrat

Lern to spell and talk english reel good like us here on Foxx Newz, OK, Amurica? Especially you damn foreignurs.

Doocy:

“So many people are trying to dumb down America and the world! Just leave it the way it is! Study your books, people! Or you'll end up like me and the blonde bonehead over here, making lots of money on Faux News! Uh, never mind...”

Douche iz to herd to spel. Werds shud onlee haf wun bowel.

Double plus ridiculous

Did he really say at the end that people have been speaking English for thousands of years?

It hurts the brain to listen to these morons.

"S O L D-I E R." Soler.

This is just too funny. Humbling, though, that I've been spelling "soldier" wrong all this time, no "D" and all.

I compliment you on your comedic timing, Logan, and I know that you'll appreciate the irony of your using the wrong "complement" in expressing your appreciation of the comedic irony. :-)

JFC, these people are so feeble, they make rocks seem like scholars. Have they ever watched tapes of their own shows?

The beauty of English is in its embrace of so many words, like a quilt of culture stitched in time... the day that the truth of the New Year's chant Auld Lang Syne is revealed will be a day that the English language reclaims its Celtic connection to fertility and the earth can begin to heal, perhaps.

ove coarse thees peepl kant spel thay werk for Fox Noos.

Note how she admits she's too stupid to use a spellchecker. Also, does she think soldier is spelled 'soljier' (she says there's no D in soldier). Way to go supporting our troops.

Fleece @ 15:

Douche iz to herd to spel. Werds shud onlee haf wun bowel.

Butt Douchee tawks aut uv da saim bowel he poups aut uv.

...as long as we're on the subject, at the end of the first paragraph, the word is "complement," not "compliment."

I’m including video to compliment the comedic irony.

Um, well, sorry, but the proper spelling here would be "complement." Just saying...

douchebag? is dat hym?

Stranded @ 27:

I’m including video to compliment the comedic irony.

Um, well, sorry, but the proper spelling here would be "complement." Just saying...

The correct spelling is "ninja'd" :)

Warren beat me to it. Thanks, Warren.

Forget that douchebag whats new?

these people would fail a no-child-left-behind curriculum.

L.A. Confidential @ 31:

Forget that douchebag whats new?

same old shit, only piled higher and deeper.

Benjamin Franklin was an avid proponent of reforming the English language and making spelling more phonetic.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/franklin.htm
So, I guess this piece from Fox only shows that they hate the founding fathers and in turn HATE AMERICA...

The irony it so sweet.

I lost 50 IQ points listening to these simpletons.

Truthseeker @ 358:

How do you spell W?

dubaya.

tyree @ 355:

good morning mudshark, yes i know what this threads about and lord knows id never defend fox news , but i think thiers to much worrying about a persons spelling on here, i see even some who make fun of others makeing mistakes writeing actually make plenty of mistakes without anyone correcting them, or they make type os , i can understand them so long as they come close to spelling a word right , anyway as i said thiers probably quite a few whod like to post but are piss poor spellers and get discouraged from doing it because theyd get ridiculed,

I try not to jump on someone's spelling and punctuation skills as an indicator of their intelligence. I can't type (hunt-and peck only), so I have a little more time to try to get it right. Though I could critique others' spellings here, I figure most of them make up for the occasional error in enthusiasm and volume.

Tyree, I view you as an institution here. While I don't always agree with your posts, I never have trouble reading them, spelling errors or not.

I

Paul @ 312:

Vindication for having thrown my TV away 20'ish years ago.

I most got a kick out of the line about dumbing down 'Murca.

This says it nicely, From the Journal of Irreproducible Results:

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise - Jerrold H. Zar

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

...
-- Jerrold H. Zar
Department of Biological Sciences
Northern Illinois University

Thank yew, that wez brilyant! :)

Is anyone listening to McSame on the today show right now.
His stance on fuels make him sound like a Democrat. Spinningggggggg. oh my head.
+ Matt Lauer is a tool.

mudshark @ 360:

Truthseeker @ 358:

How do you spell W?

dubaya.

Shouldn't that be dubya

Or Dubai?

Wow....people are fucking idiots....raising fucking idiot children...

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 365:

Wow....people are fucking idiots....raising fucking idiot children...

Not me. I am monogamous. :)

Well at least we've cleared up one mystery...and the answer is 'NO':

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" George Bush: Florence, SC, 1/11/00

ysbaddaden @ 364:

mudshark @ 360:

Truthseeker @ 358:

How do you spell W?

dubaya.

Shouldn't that be dubya

Or Dubai?

Paragway.

Since when did Fox become so elitist.. telling people to spell correctly and all..

Re: The fox clip above

Dude on the right says:

'English has been around for thousands of years...'

That was funny :)

No fux "newscaster" left behind - unfortunately, our fux "newscasters" isn't learning...

nonny mouse @ 282:

First:

'At least English grammar is simple...' BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, right. Rry teaching it, and you'll figure out pretty fast English grammar is far, far from simple. But thanks, I needed a good giggle.

Second:

I'm currently struggling with trying to decide between how long and how hard I'm willing to fight to stay in New Zealand, and returning to the States for the first time in over twenty years. As someone with a solid book publishing career and a Master's degree in English lit, I've suddenly been getting LOTS of notices in my email inbox for community colleges looking for English and writing lecturers. 'But... but...' I burbled in astonishment to Our Kid, who is a professor of PolySci in California, 'the country is in a horrible recession, unemployment is staggering!'

'Exactly,' says she. 'Which is why so many community colleges all over the country are looking for more English lecturers.'

Sez I, most eruditely, 'say, whuh?'

'Think about it,' sez she. 'People who lose their jobs go back to community colleges to learn another skill in hopes of getting another job. Those who speak English as a second language are competing against those who speak English as their native tongue, so they need to learn better English. And all too many of those who speak English as their native tongue are functionally illiterate, thanks to years of 'esteem passing' protocols in high school, and are now competing against those who can actually fill out an employment application. Those teachers with solid English skills are in good demand right now...'

Hmmm.

Plus, I've heard housing in the States is dirt cheap to buy right now. Seems in a perverse way, ol' Dubya might have done folks like me a favour...

... but I think I'm still going to try to hang on to my dreams here in NZ, just a little longer...

Wow, what a surprise..... Nonny "bragging" about her C.V. Never would have saw that coming

It should be noted that Theodore Roosevelt took up changing the English language as a serious cause. He too was dismayed that the spelling sometimes contradicts the phonetic nature of certain words. He eventually relented and took up other business, but it's an amusing part of his personal history. The people at Fox shouldn't be expected to acknowledge this historical aspect of their subject when they bemoan "people today," because, of course, they probably can't be expected to read books.

jay walker @ 370:

Re: The fox clip above

Dude on the right says:

'English has been around for thousands of years...'

That was funny :)

6000 to be precise. Everyone knows Adam and Eve spoke English.

She's so stupid, it makes my brain hurt. Make it stop, please make it stop!

I'm number #370 today -WOWIE!! Throwing even a whifff of Fox out there is getting to be like blood is to a shark!
MMMMMM, yummmmy! :D

But I'm still out more Red meat after I just saw this headline in that other Right wing rag, the WSJ"

How Prime Minister Maliki Pacified Iraq
By KIMBERLY KAGAN and FREDERICK W. KAGAN
June 10, 2008; Page A17

"America is very close to succeeding in Iraq. The "near-strategic defeat" of al Qaeda in Iraq described by CIA Director Michael Hayden last month in the Washington Post has been followed by the victory of the Iraqi government's security forces over illegal Shiite militias, including Iranian-backed Special Groups. The enemies of Iraq and America now cling desperately to their last bastions, while the political process builds momentum."

IRAQ IS "PACIFIED" THEY NOW SAY?? The smell of victory as reported by the Kagans and Lieberman and MCCain completely defy the truth when you read every other paper outside of the Bush/war profiteer controlled US press:

IRAQ - REPORTED NEWS -Just in the last week
1. Police recruits killed in Iraq
An explosion has killed at least four Iraqi police recruits and wounded 23 others in Baghdad, police say.
The recruits had assembled at a police recruitment centre on Sunday on Muthanna airport street in western Baghdad when they were struck by an improvised explosive device(IED).

2. In a separate incident, three people were killed in a mortar attack inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.
The shells apparently targeted the Iraqi defence ministry but they hit one of the entrances to the Green Zone, the official said.

3. Last week, a Filipino man was killed and two female compatriots were injured in another mortar attack on the Green Zone.

4. 2 more US soldiers killed, when one bomb exploded near a small patrol base close to executed president Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Sunday, the military said, and the second soldier died when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in east Baghdad at 9:45 am (0645 GMT) on Saturday, it added. =4,093

5. In another attack on Sunday, a mortar hit the Iraqi ministry of planning office, wounding seven civilians.

The bombs, in fact are now routinely focused on and are getting closer to making bigger hits inside the Green Zone- something unheard of before.

there is a large group of people that call themselves "the society for simplified spelling" http://www.spellingsociety.org/

They make a lot of good points. One interesting one is that typesetters added letters to words to make more money. These changes became part of the language when "Dr. Johnson stamped his authority on English spelling with his famous dictionary. In his day many words were still spelt differently by different writers. He chose his preferred versions, or linked different meanings to different spellings, e.g. 'there - their', paying very little heed to pronunciation. Many of our worst problems are due to him. His work is now very much due for a revue."

rats. i can't believe that you are making me defend *gasp* steve doocey and the brown haired guy who isn't steve doocey (tbhgwisd.) they weren't advocating it, they seemed shocked that someone would suggest that people can't learn to spell 'monkey.' - yeah, they aren't that bright themselves and have a poor concept of the expanse of time (tbhgwisd probably thinks the declaration of independence was written a thousand years ago, too) but they didn't "do a segment on the English language and that there are a lot of words that many people find difficult to spell correctly." - they did a segment on a teacher who claims this.

"I stopped on monkey" - maybe you should have watched. even the blond chick who is not e.d. hill (tbcwinedh) questioned what was so hard about monkey.

otoh, tbcwinedh was/is embarrassing. embarrassing - look that up in your funk and wagnall's.

Trust FOX News to trivialize a long standing problem. Many many scholars how study languages have long rated English as one of the two most difficult languages to learn (Chinese being the other one). Because English has been borrowing words from other languages the rules for spelling in English have a great many exceptions. For many years now scholars have been trying to come up with a way to solve this problem and have yet to find one. English spelling is difficult, live with it. What is needed is better ways of teaching English that acknowledges these difficulties.

In closing I leave you with these two following thoughts....
"Some languages borrow from other languages. English follows them down dark allies, knocks the over there heads and goes through there pockets for loose syntax."

Spell the following sentence correctly
"There are three tos in the English Language."

Lets hear it for FOX News once more giving air time to a conundrum while ignoring real problems.

ysbaddaden @ 364:

mudshark @ 360:

Truthseeker @ 358:

How do you spell W?

dubaya.

Shouldn't that be dubya

Or Dubai?

It's DUHbya.

Spell the following sentence correctly
“There are three tos in the English Language.”

"There are three words in the English Language pronounced 'too.'"

trick question, right?

Jean2k @ 19:

This is just too funny. Humbling, though, that I've been spelling "soldier" wrong all this time, no "D" and all.

Probably getting to this waaaay too late, but her point was that there IS a "D" in the spelling, but no "D" in the pronunciation. It's a "J" sound...or is that a soft "G"? Anyway, I think I'll go take a shower now because I just defended a Fox blonde.

fastfeat @ 374:

jay walker @ 370:

Re: The fox clip above

Dude on the right says:

'English has been around for thousands of years...'

That was funny :)

6000 to be precise. Everyone knows Adam and Eve spoke English.

HA! Good one, lmmfao!!!!

xoites defends Constitution @ 366:

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 365:

Wow....people are fucking idiots....raising fucking idiot children...

Not me. I am monogamous. :)

Oh yeah?! I'm magnanimous!

This is so stupid, Faux News is the absolute bottom feeders in news. If you can call this news.

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 384:

xoites defends Constitution @ 366:

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 365:

Wow....people are fucking idiots....raising fucking idiot children...

Not me. I am monogamous. :)

Oh yeah?! I'm magnanimous!

And McW is monontonous.

Christopher @ 17:

Did he really say at the end that people have been speaking English for thousands of years?

It hurts the brain to listen to these morons.

Yes, English can be a difficult language. It is known as the language that never met a word it didn't like.

But folks, it is also easier than some languages due the fact that it doesn't assign "sexes" to the nouns. There is no masculine or feminine (or neutral in German) sex to each noun. We don't have to change the ending of adjectives to correspond with the sex of the noun it is describing. We don't have to memorize each noun's sex. It isn't der mann, die frau, or das haus - it is the man, the woman, the house.

Also, long ago, English gave up all but one version of the "you". We don't have to decide between formal, familiar, formal plural, or familiar plural.

I have to give it to the pundits on this clip. Basically, they are saying "quit with the complaining and learn the language."

But the blond was hilarious beyond words.

But it's TRUE!
My daughter, a native speaker of English, happened to learn to read and write in Spanish. (In Spanish, the very idea of a Spelling Bee for people older than five is laughable) She quite sensibly refused for the next two years to put up with the anti-intuitive written representation with which we shackle ourselves. Only Harry Potter finally pulled her kicking and screaming into the 16th century. Sure - the grammar and vocabulary are only a little more treacherous than other languages, but the spelling is number one!

Dr. Acula @ 386:

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 384:

xoites defends Constitution @ 366:

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 365:

Not me. I am monogamous. :)

Oh yeah?! I'm magnanimous!

And McW is monontonous.

He's also malodorous!

that Doocey guy has the weirdest smirk on his face...its like he's permanently sitting on the toilet trying real hard. Nice perma-grin idiot!!!

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 389:

Dr. Acula @ 386:

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 384:

xoites defends Constitution @ 366:

Oh yeah?! I'm magnanimous!

And McW is monontonous.

He's also malodorous!

And mendacious.

You want to really blow their minds?

Explain to them how language is a paradigm for evolution.

AM TEH INGLESH TU HARED?

FOX, please do something about the color spectrum as well.

Do we really need chartreuse?

Heard about this on Stephanine Miller today.

For those you don't want to forget after you've been raptured:

http://www.youvebeenleftbehind.com/

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Party Victory @ 33:

L.A. Confidential @ 31:

Forget that douchebag whats new?

same old shit, only piled higher and deeper.

No doubt about it.

"People have been speaking English for thousands of years!"

Ooo-kay...I guess you don't need to have your facts straight on that network or a brain to be a host....

"Pomper Room" fer adults- 'tis! Looky- she got roots!!

Senate GOP blocks windfall taxes on Big Oil

http://tinyurl.com/48xofy

L.A. Confidential @ 20:

Want to see my cat?

http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j161/aprilette/?action=view&current=100_0075.flv

Is your cat wearing a fucking t-shirt?

BTW, here's my dog

Oops! <> Soory- been hittin the bottle

Hilarious. Fox does a good job dumbing down Amarika all by itself. People have been speaking English for thousands of years, do they even sell "hardcore" dictionaries anymore...LOL.

English can be a difficult language for some as a 2nd or 3rd langauge ......... some users of the Americon language, which is not English, it seems is/are still stupid and moronic ........

I was educated in various decent schools in England and this makes me physically wince ........ please someone cull this collection of useless bile dribbling muppets !

miss_kitty @ 40:

L.A. Confidential @ 20:

Want to see my cat?

http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j161/aprilette/?action=view&current=100_0075.flv

Is your cat wearing a fucking t-shirt?

BTW, here's my dog

LOL no she got a summer haircut.

Actually a thousand years ago English spelling was quite easy, and we had the two extra ð and þ letters. Then the Normans came in and ruined it all. Oh well.

But that's all right. I'm opposed to spelling reform because that would mean having to choose a single accent of all the world's English accents to be the One And Only True English Pronunciation, and nobody would be happy with that. Even within a single country nobody pronounces things exactly the same way.

"Romper Room" ..... time out fer pet goats, me'thinks

This is why there is nothing wrong with the English language:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The free bird leaps
on the back of the win
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and is tune is heard
on the distant hillfor the caged bird
sings of freedom

The free bird thinks of another breeze
an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou

"Well blow me down!

We're's me corn-cob pipe?"

Old Billy Hussein @ 392:

You want to really blow their minds?

Explain to them how language is a paradigm for evolution.

They'll just brag they have more than two dimes to rub together.

Dr. Acula @ 380:

ysbaddaden @ 364:

mudshark @ 360:

Truthseeker @ 358:
dubaya.

Shouldn't that be dubya

Or Dubai?

It's DUHbya.

There are sites claiming boosh has an IQ of 125, which makes it around mine.

But my shrinks tell me there are other parts I have that are off their charts and can't be measured.

Supposedly I'm almost entirely right-brained in my thinking.

The reason English is so treacherous for people, who are learning it, is because of how it developed. The English language has grown, over fifteen hundred years, by absorbing words, adaptations of words and corruptions of words from many other languages. These inductees are words whose spelling and pronunciation were derived from alternate systems, and exist in English as exceptions to English spelling, pronunciation, and grammatical rules.

This is one reason why English has become the lingua franca of international business and international law.

Of course, cretins whose vocabularies have not developed above a few thousand words will never value the complexity and richness of the English language as a communications tool.

Lollimom @ 21:

JFC, these people are so feeble, they make rocks seem like scholars. Have they ever watched tapes of their own shows?

That would require either being able to spell 'play' or understanding that the flattened out D symbol has to be pressed to watch.

I'm more worried about a president who warns us about Iran's nuclear program but can't pronounce the word "nuclear." Bush also asked us if our childrens is learning, and he doesn't know the difference between "dissemble" and "disassemble."

Fox doesn't have much to say about Bush's gaffes, however.

This is just screaming for a “Write Your Own Caption”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm5-O6DZMKo

(Listen to LOUD.)

No wonder FOX tried to hide that movie Idiocracy, it was hitting to close to home for them.
Mike Judge must be laughing his ass off

Christopher @ 17:

Did he really say at the end that people have been speaking English for thousands of years?

It hurts the brain to listen to these morons.

yeah he did. Painful.

What a bunch of idiots.

Go to Anoka, MN, where Gretchen Carlson grows up. Her parent, if the don't still, used to own a car lot called Main Motors on Main St. I will say that Anoka High School does not teach the complete lack of comprehension that Gretchen seems to have. I am somewhat embarrassed to say that I am from the same town as her. Oh, her parent may still own their home on the Mississippi. Do you think she can spell that?

fastfeat @ 361:

tyree @ 355:

good morning mudshark, yes i know what this threads about and lord knows id never defend fox news , but i think thiers to much worrying about a persons spelling on here, i see even some who make fun of others makeing mistakes writeing actually make plenty of mistakes without anyone correcting them, or they make type os , i can understand them so long as they come close to spelling a word right , anyway as i said thiers probably quite a few whod like to post but are piss poor spellers and get discouraged from doing it because theyd get ridiculed,

I try not to jump on someone's spelling and punctuation skills as an indicator of their intelligence. I can't type (hunt-and peck only), so I have a little more time to try to get it right. Though I could critique others' spellings here, I figure most of them make up for the occasional error in enthusiasm and volume.

Tyree, I view you as an institution here. While I don't always agree with your posts, I never have trouble reading them, spelling errors or not.

I

thnx fastfeet guess ive just been burnt to many times anyway im starting to like what i hear obama saying , so hes got my vote!

Replace English courses with "Intelligent Design".
And pray..............

tyree @ 406:

fastfeat @ 361:

tyree @ 355:

good morning mudshark, yes i know what this threads about and lord knows id never defend fox news , but i think thiers to much worrying about a persons spelling on here, i see even some who make fun of others makeing mistakes writeing actually make plenty of mistakes without anyone correcting them, or they make type os , i can understand them so long as they come close to spelling a word right , anyway as i said thiers probably quite a few whod like to post but are piss poor spellers and get discouraged from doing it because theyd get ridiculed,

I try not to jump on someone's spelling and punctuation skills as an indicator of their intelligence. I can't type (hunt-and peck only), so I have a little more time to try to get it right. Though I could critique others' spellings here, I figure most of them make up for the occasional error in enthusiasm and volume.

Tyree, I view you as an institution here. While I don't always agree with your posts, I never have trouble reading them, spelling errors or not.

I

thnx fastfeet guess ive just been burnt to many times anyway im starting to like what i hear obama saying , so hes got my vote!

Excellent news Tyree! Welcome aboard!

Old Billy Hussein @ 391:

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 389:

Dr. Acula @ 386:

liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 384:

And McW is monontonous.

He's also malodorous!

And mendacious.

And malicious!

Spell "morons".

Bonkers @ 410:

Spell "morons".

M O R A N?

I am posting this to ask all of you to contact Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and DEMAND that Impeachment Hearing begin IMMEDIATELY. Her office is taking calls and we MUST pressure these hearings to begin. She can be reached at: 202) 225-4965

Also, call your Representatives and demand they co-sponsor and support Rep. Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment and HEARINGS thereof. We, as citizens of the U.S.A., it is our duty to demand a functional and humain Democratic Government. Please make some calls and let's fight these criminal repugnikkkans who care NOTHING about our Constitution and the American People. Thanks you. Peace!

"people have been speaking english for thousands of years..."

Holy batshit these people are stupid. That's just too funny. The irony of it all. Trying to give traction to the idea that changing the language so people can spell better is stupid (which I agree with) but undermining it by saying REALLY dumb shit like that.....lol!!!!

fastfeat @ 361:

tyree @ 355:

good morning mudshark, yes i know what this threads about and lord knows id never defend fox news , but i think thiers to much worrying about a persons spelling on here, i see even some who make fun of others makeing mistakes writeing actually make plenty of mistakes without anyone correcting them, or they make type os , i can understand them so long as they come close to spelling a word right , anyway as i said thiers probably quite a few whod like to post but are piss poor spellers and get discouraged from doing it because theyd get ridiculed,

I try not to jump on someone's spelling and punctuation skills as an indicator of their intelligence. I can't type (hunt-and peck only), so I have a little more time to try to get it right. Though I could critique others' spellings here, I figure most of them make up for the occasional error in enthusiasm and volume.

Tyree, I view you as an institution here. While I don't always agree with your posts, I never have trouble reading them, spelling errors or not.

I

'Twas a far far better thing to have to hunt and peck on a keyboard

Than to hunt for your pecker.

Ron @ 159:

karl @ 156:

Leslie [Hussein] @ 153:

Ron @ 139:
Saw that too. That poor intern. Fox is ridiculous.

for soft porn demographics.....sicko

Like a drug, soft porn leads up to the heavy stuff.

Hey! What's wrong with the heavy stuff?
If it went away how would I keep track of the Repug party activities?

Glad to see that the totally uneducated Reslug and Reslut morons on Faux Noise admit that they are all dumbed down and that's just the way it is.

Oil will hit a new all time high today.
The price of oil is crushing the economies of the world.
The demand isn't even real. In fact, demand is falling, because the price of fuels and lubricants is so high, businesses and consumers are throwing in the towel.
"Demand" is being fed by hedge funds using 16-to-1 lines of credit to buy oil in the spot market. It's the Tulip Craze of the 21st century.

Not only can people not spell they can't read. Why? Check your school they don't teach phonetics. Now if you want your kid to read you have to buy or join special courses and guess what the special!!!! is PHONETICS!!!!!!!!! Talk about dumbing down america

*deep sigh*

Look, speaking as a "foreigner", I agree that English is hard to spell. Like almost any other language on the planet.

Learn to spell and you won't have problems with spelling. It's that simple, folks. I don't often use a spell checker either... not because I don't know how to, but because I rarely need to. I only use it as a safety measure before printing or submitting something, but it rarely catches a legitimate error (most often, it chokes on proper names and terminology it doesn't recognize).

And if an Afrikaans guy can achieve that level of "5p3ll1n9 l337n355", so can you. ;)

PS. "An' jest tuh mess wi' yew fellers, Ah'm a Bush supporter and woulda voted Ruhpublickin if'n Ah wuz a US citizen... g'night, y'all..." :)

xoites defends Constitution @ 251:

alive in leeds norm @ 246:

did she say hardcore dictionary?

Yes, apparently she considers them pornographic.

I'm assuming she meant "hardback", but now we know where her mind is. (Freudian slip?)

The truth is that many words in English ARE INDEED very difficult to spell. Part of the problem is that for most of the history of English-speaking people there was no standardization of spelling. Of course, the development of the printing press helped drive conformity for spelling, but there was no systematic attempt to reform the English language to standardize spelling, grammar, etc.

Consider the fact that British and American spelling rules differ slightly. We write "standardize", they write "standardise". We write "color" and "labor", and they write "colour" and "labour".

I think that English could indeed benefit from adopting spelling rules that are more phonetic. It would be difficult at first, but within a generation or so it would become "normal" to spell words as they are pronounced.

Also, before the great vowel shift, words like Knight, Knife, Night, Bane, etc etc, were all pronounced the way they were spelled. Afterwards, they changed the pronunciation, but not the spelling.

Mugsy @ 420:

xoites defends Constitution @ 251:

alive in leeds norm @ 246:

did she say hardcore dictionary?

Yes, apparently she considers them pornographic.

I'm assuming she meant "hardback", but now we know where her mind is. (Freudian slip?)

Their slogan is, Oooh, la, la, faux pas...

Trick question, yes. but your answer is not correct. First you changed the sentence. Secondly you are quoting the spelling of the word to avoid the problem of the word 'too' being an adverb and not the nound that is needed. You are correct in that quoting is often given as the way to write the sentence since there is no other way to even get close to spelling the sentence. With out changing the sentence structure or using quotes try spelling it.
dirk gently, sociopathetic @ 381:

Spell the following sentence correctly
“There are three tos in the English Language.”

"There are three words in the English Language pronounced 'too.'"

trick question, right?

By the by, are you an English teacher or Grammarian by any chance?

Nick @ 37:

"People have been speaking English for thousands of years!"

Ooo-kay...I guess you don't need to have your facts straight on that network or a brain to be a host....

If you include both Old and Middle English, for that matter just Middle English, then the English language is well over 1,000 years old. If they meant to say that English is several (two or more) thousands years old then I would say that FOX News in indulging in its usual hyperbole. As for me, I just go with Modern English which is just hundred of years old. (I'd give a more exact number but I'm embarrassed to say I don't remember just when Linguistic Historians consider the time Middle English became Modern English. I know it was the vowel shift just not when the shift was complete. )

There's no "d" in dumb blond! There are two.

Can the spell FEMA?

Yes, teh stupid is beyond painful. And that Douchey would actually say "“So many people are trying to dumb down America and the world" is the epitome of irony! LOL!

Logan posted: "This morning they did a segment on the English language and that there are a lot of words that many people find difficult to spell correctly. I stopped on monkey."

Speaking of "monkey", check out the below links - anyone see a resemblance? ;-)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Battery-Operated-Electric-Vintage-Monkey-Bangs-Cymba...

and

http://www.foxnews.com/radio/brianandthejudge/index.html

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why..oh why..didnt his daddy use a condom...

I'm just saying that people who learn English as a second language say that it's a difficult, one of the most difficult (languages to learn)

SO? Don't blame it on us, missy! As far as I know, non-native speakers actually have better spellings than native speakers (because they make it an effort to study the language).

That is something that my English teacher and friends pointed out and admitted, too.

People who don't spell well either didn't have the right guidance or were just plain lazy.

when one of those weasels started screeching about the dumbing down of america, i shut it off. i bet it never occurred to him that his show is the proof that the dumbing down occurred already.

OT Alert :

Anybody watching C-SPAN? The Clerk of the House of Representatives is currently reading Rep. D. Kucinich's (D-OH) 35 Articles of Impeachment into the Congressional Record. She/They started at about 8:30 EDT. The chyron is indicating that a vote on the resolution 'may' take place on Wednesday.

Candied-popcorn, anyone...? (:>

Bilderberg 2008 Attendee List

DEU "Ackermann, Josef" "Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG"
CAN "Adams, John" Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence and Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada
USA "Ajami, Fouad" "Director, Middle East Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University"
USA "Alexander, Keith B." "Director, National Security Agency"

[Deleted. Feel free to post a link-Sitemonitor]

By the way, this isn't my site but thought it might be interesting considering the subject:

http://www.dnghu.org

It's a group that is attempting to revive the original proto-Indo-European language of 5000 years ago (the language that all Indo-European languages came from) for use in the EU, like how Hebrew was revived, modernized and is now the official language in Israel.

Scary , and to think these idiots have an audience .

L.A. Confidential @ 39:

Senate GOP blocks windfall taxes on Big Oil

http://tinyurl.com/48xofy

senate democratspussies roll over

I wood lose patients trying to beet cents in there heads!

Donald Hussein Cormac @ 48:

OT Alert :

Anybody watching C-SPAN? The Clerk of the House of Representatives is currently reading Rep. D. Kucinich's (D-OH) 35 Articles of Impeachment into the Congressional Record. She/They started at about 8:30 EDT. The chyron is indicating that a vote on the resolution 'may' take place on Wednesday.

Candied-popcorn, anyone...? (:>

It started at 8:25 edt (5:25 pdt)- it's a 5 hour chore

Of course the English language has been spoken for thousands of years. Isn't the bible written in English. So there.

bullfrog @ 1:

i didn't see this on c&l, so i thought i'd share it...

obama speaks to campaign staff @ chicago hq after securing democratic nomination

thanks

Could we please stop using the asinine "teh"?

This editor and grammarian thanks you.

Peter G @ 55:

Of course the English language has been spoken for thousands of years. Isn't the bible written in English. So there.

LOL

Well English is so dificult and really doesn't serve our appointed leaders. I guess we need a new language....Newspeak!!

"“It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words”

Orwell, 1984

Donald Hussein Cormac @ 48:

OT Alert :

Anybody watching C-SPAN? The Clerk of the House of Representatives is currently reading Rep. D. Kucinich's (D-OH) 35 Articles of Impeachment into the Congressional Record. She/They started at about 8:30 EDT. The chyron is indicating that a vote on the resolution 'may' take place on Wednesday.

Candied-popcorn, anyone...? (:>

Well, she certainly hasn't a hope in the world of furthering the issue with her stale "I am not a professional actress" delivery, to be sure. How was she ever appointed that job in the first place?!!

Bush hasn't been speaking English for years.

The video that should sink John McCain's presidential dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-R5Vh5tOWk

This isn't real, is it? This is a real show?
"Fox and Friends," for God's sake?
Just the title sounds like a Saturday morning children's show.

Not a good one, either.

L.A. Confidential @ 44:

miss_kitty @ 40:

L.A. Confidential @ 20:

Want to see my cat?

http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j161/aprilette/?action=view&current=100_0075.flv

Is your cat wearing a fucking t-shirt?

BTW, here's my dog

LOL no she got a summer haircut.

Doesn't that piss her off?

Soljour
solgiour
soljor
solgier
Dam, wune uf theese halve tu bee write.

The lack of self-awareness is blinding.

RobertD @ 63:

This isn't real, is it? This is a real show?
"Fox and Friends," for God's sake?
Just the title sounds like a Saturday morning children's show.

Not a good one, either.

Exactly, it's a morning show for kids. Seriously, it's a morning show.

Peter G @ 55:

Of course the English language has been spoken for thousands of years. Isn't the bible written in English. So there.

You GO, girl!!....Hyear hyear!!! n' hip-hip!!

Louis Wendt @ 68:

Peter G @ 55:

Of course the English language has been spoken for thousands of years. Isn't the bible written in English. So there.

You GO, girl!!....Hyear hyear!!! n' hip-hip!!

Bible is capitalized in properly rendered English....BTW

If they think English is too hard, it's no wonder the truth completely flummoxes them.

"I've never used spellcheck in my whole life, because I don't know how!"

push F7

I know, that's a hard one. I must be some kind of compootor jeeenyus!

Fox has Friend's! I thought the called them Robot's.

storm @ 433:

Fox has Friend's! I thought they called them Robot's.

No "D" in soldier. LOL!

I get it now!

Since The Daily Show and Colbert are so popular, Fox News is trying to become the next Comedy Central.

All they need now are clown suits.

*snark* U stoopid liberel donkeys must fell petty stoopid right knew. I bet u can't evan spell our national anthem becaws u hate Amedica. Learn how to spell, u elitisg morans!

Their stupidity was relentless in that segment.

What sort of person watches them? Oh right... the 26% who think bush is doing a good job.

Nothing's more amusing than watching three of the dumbest people in America complain about the dumbing down of America.

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