You both have valid viewpoints.THAWA wrote:I gave up trying to be understanding about spelling. There's just too many people that don't understand a good chunk of the english language. Too many people just don't care about their education.-K- wrote:I can't believe how insensitive all of you are of the learn'd impared. Shame on you to judge them just because they sound stupid on the internet.
But going back to the original question that started this thread, I'll relate what I've personally found . . .
There are many reasons why people can't (or don't) spell properly. The reason(s) can be put into one or more broad categories but oftentimes it is a combination of reasons.
One reason is that an individual doesn't yet have the capacity. I have a cousin who is autistic and spelling is not one of his strong points.
A traumatic experience can be sufficient enough reason. Imagine a good student being raped by her English teacher and thereafter being a poor student AND a poor speller.
Some have gone through school succumbing to peer pressure (and who of us haven't in one way or another?) and not wanting to become like those uppity, nose-in-the-air intellectuals. This has affected them till the present.
Many have had no instruction, training, nor the encouragement at home to read or write. Is it any wonder that there is an increasing number of high school graduates who are illiterate?
Others are foreigners/immigrants or who grew up in bilingual families who can speak the languages well but not write English very well.
There are those who are so preoccupied with their intense pursuit of another endeavor (work, art, lifestyle, whatever) that correcting their erroneous spelling is the farthest thing from their mind (many businessmen order the SAME lunch every day because they don't want to take a few seconds to choose something different because they are always facing a time deadline).
I had other reasons why people don't spell correctly, some of which have already been posted, but these are some of the ones I recall in rubbing shoulders with people
(Editing and adding this part in that I had left out earlier: And, yes, there are those who are defiant in not wanting to spell correctly but that usually is an attitude that has been molded by experiences earlier in life. Then, there are those who could care less, and others who are actually oblivious to their incorrect spelling.)
, I missed it the first time but I see it now. You did a compound rule breakage there. Of course, I wasn't paying attention. And, I was doing ladder logic while I was reading the post. 
