August 7, 2008
Guru kant beleeve wot he is heering. It seems them uni lekturers ave gone mad and are callin' for words spelt rongly to be part of da English languidg.
Yes, Ken Smith, criminologist at Bucks New University, has called for common misspellings to be legitamised.
Arguement, ignor, occured, opertunity, speach, thier and twelth should all be incorporated into English
language, he claims. Guru thought some of them already were, but apparently not yet.
"Either we go on beating ourselves and our students up over this problem or we simply give everyone a break
and accept these variant spellings as such," he told the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Well that would certainly help prepare Generation Y for the workplace. Just what HR profesisonals need is
some even worse put together CVs. It's already hard enough to work out what planet most job applicants are
from these days, without encouraging them to spell however they feel like.
"I is aplyin for de jobb as sign-righter. I kan spel signz in many wayz for u. I 'as a dekree in
sign-rightin' skillz and speling teckniqes from Bucks New University."
Good luck in the brave new world, disciples. Guru is off to relearn Latin.
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