Posted by JD Seller on July 09, 2013 at 07:34:33 from (208.126.196.144):
The post below about the "squire baler" got a lot of us talking about spelling and grammar.
In my family there is a genetic factor to the spelling and speech issue. All of the males in the family have had issues with spelling and speech. I had to have speech training when I was young. I still edit what I say while speaking so that I do not get to a word that I have trouble pronouncing. My written vocabulary is larger than my spoken one. Many terms and words I commonly use in writing I can not use in speech.
My brothers have had issues with this too. My sons and my Grand sons all have had speech lessons as they grew up. Some are worse than others but it still is a common issue.
I actually KNOW it is genetic. My mind does not process phonics the way most people do. Spelling to me is almost a pure memory deal. I have learned some of the rules of spelling as I have aged but not many.
The females in the family do not seem to have this issue. Now math swamps some of them. So I think that our minds just process the information differently. I think women in general have better communication skills.
I many times will re-write an entire sentence or paragraph just because I can't spell the word I want to use. I mess them up so bad that the SPELL Check surrenders. LAMO
Some days it is worse than others. Some days I spell much better than others. I often write a word down because it does not look "right" to me. It maybe spelled correctly or it may not be.
I used to HATE teachers and others that would tell me to just look a word up in the dictionary. I may not have known the first letter let alone be able to find it in the dictionary.
Grammar is a complete mystery to me. I just learned it in school well enough to pass the test at the end of the lesson. My writing is not too bad because I read a lot and can tell usually if the grammar is off because it "sounds" wrong when I read it in my mind.
You could put a gun to my head and I could not diagram a sentence. I could find the nouns and maybe the verbs but the rest is Greek to me.
The terms: To, too, two I usually get correctly. Others I just bluff through. LOL
Now some common things we see all of the time that are not correct.
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