The Buckets by Greg Cravens for September 18, 2017

I predict that she will have very little trouble with her male students.

And if it’s not your first or only language, there’s no excuse for incorrect spelling either.

I spend some time cruising the webcomic sites and see a lot of work by people from other countries

In their profiles, many of them explain that English is not their native language and beg forgiveness for errors

For the most part, the American teenagers on those sites don’t bother apologizing for their atrocious spelling and grammar

It was in memory of a teacher who looked like that that I got an unabridged dictionary.

My brilliant PHD in Microbiology son simply can’t spell. He would never have made it through college without a Franklin Spellchecker. His problem is that he tries to spell as if English were regular and logical. For example, “most” should be spelled “moast” like roast and toast. Not “most” like lost and cost. I taught English as a second language for sixteen years. I’ve seen students reduced to tears by “ough” which can be pronounced five different ways: tough, cough, plough, through, and dough.

My real life excuse for my atrocious spelling is that I have an engineering degree, we engineers tend to be extremely poor spellers. The only reason I have relatively few misspellings online is that most forums come with spell check.

Part of the reason behind so many different ways of pronouncing certain spellings, is because not all of these words originated from the same language. The “English” language is a melting pot of words gathered from multiple languages, and very often the rules of grammar, spelling, & pronunciation came along with them.

I foresee a flood of young male hormones . . .

It amazes me how many adults are unable to spell. No, I’m not Miss Perfect before anyone says.

But I haev alawys bean grate at speling!

Haha.

xxx

If your proud that English is you’re only language, you should try to avoid some of the most obvious grammar errors.

Some of the most prominent bad English spelling I see tends to come from certain people who vigorously proclaim their pride for being American, and in often threatening terms demand that certain other people (such as immigrants or foreigners in general) speak/write English, or else! That said, English is my second language, and I see the same tendency in Norwegian as well, though they of course demand that people speak/write Norwegian, or else, not English. Thus apparently an individual’s amount of pride in being of a certain nationality and speaking the corresponding language, is inversely proportional to that same individual’s ability to speak or write that same language properly. Funny old world.

Teacher should be fired: should be “proud of its being”.

Does anyone know of a site where i can read daily comics in German or French? Or is the wealth of comics we have here just a North American phenomenon?