If there were no single spelling standard, it would mean the writing of the English-speaking people would become more and more mutually unintelligible.

as long as the facts are write...
who can rebutt facts

lets spell..somethings out right now?

im sure..no-one noticed electicty..went up 25 percent...for infastructure...

lol..what infastructure?

building..a gas pipeline for santos...who are doing quite nicely thankyou,..,from the antonette/blight..RIP-off/..of..?..the largess given by...ever willing tax payers/

electri-city payers..not getting..cheaper prices..peter lied again...lol..now anna

http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2010/s2894275.htm

quote<<PIP COURTNEY:..Amazingly..the next phase will dwarf what's gone before...LOL..Until now..the energy companies have focused on selling gas..and gas fired electricity domestically.HUH?..Now..they're looking at exports...paid for by you mugs...lol

NICK DAVIES:..We've got about 500 years of reserves..to production ratio here.

In other words ..there's too much gas..for the Queensland market.

VOICEOVER..FROM/CORPORATE VIDEO:..Santos's vast reserves..[gifted by qld givt..to its mates,,]..of CSG..will become the feed stock..for a multibillion dollar LNG plant.

THANKS TO ANNA/blight

PIP COURTNEY:..The plan is to pipe coal seam gas 450 kilometres to Gladstone where it will be converted into liquefied natural gas and shipped around the world.

PAUL ZEALAND:..Those three..or four..major pro-ponents..have got projects pretty well advanced..and we're one of those..and each of those will have its production facility,..pipelines..and an LNG plant.

..PAID FOR BY ORIGEN...ie your electricty money

PIP COURTNEY:..Origin will spend $35 billion.

PAUL ZEALAND:..We expect to take out what we call our final investment decision..which is when we agree to finally build it..towards the end of this year..and then we expect to be exporting liquid natural gas before the end of 2014.

ANNA BLIGHt:..At this moment in Beijing history is being made.

sure is anntonette/bli-te..doing great for your..[and peters mates]..

oh peters maTES ARE GETTING THE FORRESTS..38.000 hectares of the stuff to a shelf company...

WHILE WE GET THE SHAFT...AND SANTOS..puts in 2 and a half mil...for roma airport../while we put in 12..plus million...and a 30 bil/mil? pipeline...lol..great mates/rates..eh

Are you therefore suggesting that if you decided to reside in say 'Irac', that you would understand the language so long as it was spelt right.
Rehctub,
If I was native to Iraq I would understand but I'm unsure about going to Irac, I know nothing about that place.
Correct spelling is not to understand another language. It is to properly express oneself in one's written & phonetic language. Another language is a totally different scenario. It has zilch to do with correct spelling. You can't apply the phonetics to another language.

Hi All,

Spelling and grammar are important if we wish to understand, develop and communicate science and technology, etc. We need a precise and correct language.
Perhaps It may considered sufficient to dumb down our day to day communication into grunts and groans, or reduce our written language to lazy shorthand such as used on the internet and other similar communication systems.
My youngest son attended school when educationists considered it unimportant to be able to spell correctly. Some educators proposed using phonetic spelling.
Although he achieved excellent Maths skills, he completed school with poor grammar and spelling skills.
One employer contacted me to advise me to send him back to school to learn to spell.
An example he gave was in a written submissions when my son wrote `I fink’ (phonetic) instead of `I think’..............
My son decided to study a literacy and numeracy course. One day he came home and told me he had achieved an “excellent “mark for his assignment. When I read it through, I was aghast at the number of spelling and grammatical errors.
When questioning his teacher, she informed me it was unimportant to spell correctly, as long as he could communicate. In my opinion, communication becomes difficult if you cannot spell or use grammar correctly.
I asked the teacher whether she considered he would cope with the language requirement s for the legal system; accounting systems; science or the arts; engineering; technical and trade publications. All of these require a good grounding in spelling and grammar.
We could continue to name areas where we need a concise and clear language to understand and to develop future concepts and teach others.
Eventually my son improved his skills, qualifying as a computer technician and programmer and eventually a bank manager. However, he still struggles with writing and spelling....
As computer technician and programmer, he began using the Windows American Spell Checker and it helped him to improve his spelling, (my preference is UK spelling).
However, I might add that the Windows Spell checker is less helpful as a grammar checker

What I would like to see is children being taught touch-typing. When kids are young they 'want' to learn physical, dexterous skills... that's why boys climb and girls do skipping and elastics for hours.

In previous centuries, boys would learn farming and hunting skills, and girls weaving and threshing. Boring, but difficult manual rote learning of skills. Kids are hard-wired to learn this stuff.

Sure some people think that spelling and grammar are redundant, but typing is more relevant than ever.

I want our kids to be 'taught' something... not just indoctrinated with the teachers beliefs in greenie-ism, feminism and socialism

Hi Qutus, would you mind commencing a thread on lightning strikes if you do not mind at some stage, as I have heard conflicting stories along the lines of "lightning strikes in the same place", and "lightning never strikes in the same place". A documentary years ago in some part of the U.S.A stated that the government circle or mark an area where lightning has struck and injured a person.

Are you able to share your shocking experience or share with OLO the location? I know of one family friend in the N.T. who is now deaf, as a result of a lightning strike. For years read up on the subject after a telegraph pole was struck out the back and the vibrations were felt through the home giving the kids and I a fright about 10 years ago.

Thanks most kindly.