http://www.novelr.com/2009/10/26/linked-a-100-year-old-defense-of-bad-spelling Hacking Publishing Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.novelr.com/2009/10/26/linked-a-100-year-old-defense-of-bad-spelling/comment-page-1#comment-3960 Eli James Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:51:47 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/?p=1222#comment-3960 Ahh, good one, Sarah. I'd forgotten that literacy was much rarer back then than it is now. This article does seem logical when seen in that context. Ahh, good one, Sarah. I’d forgotten that literacy was much rarer back then than it is now. This article does seem logical when seen in that context.

]]> http://www.novelr.com/2009/10/26/linked-a-100-year-old-defense-of-bad-spelling/comment-page-1#comment-3959 srsuleski Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:24:50 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/?p=1222#comment-3959 Did people really feel the need to nearly fall upon their swords for misspelling, back then? And here I thought that illiteracy was more common in the past than the present. Granted, these days we're plagued by chatspeak (and I don't mean an innocent "lol" here and there, but entire sentences comprised of numbers and abbreviations) but I thought the complete inability to read or write was more common in 18th century. So you'd think that a misspelling would be more kindly looked upon, because at least you *could* write. Did people really feel the need to nearly fall upon their swords for misspelling, back then? And here I thought that illiteracy was more common in the past than the present. Granted, these days we’re plagued by chatspeak (and I don’t mean an innocent “lol” here and there, but entire sentences comprised of numbers and abbreviations) but I thought the complete inability to read or write was more common in 18th century. So you’d think that a misspelling would be more kindly looked upon, because at least you *could* write.

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