LL-L "Orthography" 2005.06.25 (03) [E]

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From: jpkrause <jpkrause at sunflower.com>
Subject: Orthography

Dear Lowlanders,
            Reading yesterday's posts, I was reminded of the time I had
a temporary job assessing American high school students' essays.  One of
the prohibitions was that we were to ignore the more minor spelling
errors, since the writers only had a short amount of time to compose
their thoughts, and get them down on paper.  But, if spelling became a
hindrance to comprehension, then we were allowed to score them accordingly.
           One of the spelling errors that I quite frequently
encountered was "defanate" or "defanately" as opposed to "definite" or
"definitely."  It got so bad on a couple of these essays, that I finally
started shaving off a few points because of it.  This was true in those
particular examples where the word was over used.

Jim Krause

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