Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#428,273
It does not indicate intelligence, but bad spelling does indicate that they do not care or are not capable of doing it properly. I think bad spelling does indicate a lower intelligence, but good spelling does not guarantee it by any means.
TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs replied with this 13 years ago, 23 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#428,278
@previous (F)
This. Unless they're non-native speakers, in which case poor spelling can be forgiven. English spelling is an inconsistent pile of shit.
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 13 years ago, 41 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#428,285
@previous (TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs) > English spelling is an inconsistent pile of shit.
Get out.
I am serious, leave the country immediately.
TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs replied with this 13 years ago, 12 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#428,287
@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Nein, danke. Das ist nicht sehr nett. :(
kook !!32zdfdzi+ joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#428,290
It depends on what exactly counts as intelligence. I know people who can spell perfectly, but cant do math worth shit
Mark Twain joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#428,297
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have acorrespondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spellit with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow.
I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.
...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft andpreserving the memory of the revered crime.