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RabidAlien

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I had to read this twice...and am still looking for The Onion's logo. Holy crap, people need to get a frikkin LIFE!!!
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In DC, even the Spelling Bee draws protesters - Yahoo! News


In DC, even the Spelling Bee draws protesters
AP

By LAUREN SAUSSER, Associated Press Writer Lauren Sausser, Associated Press Writer – Thu Jun 3, 3:55 pm ET

WASHINGTON – The nation's capital always draws its share of protesters, picketing for causes ranging from health care reform to immigration policy.

But spelling bee protesters? They're out here, too.

Four peaceful protesters, some dressed in full-length black and yellow bee costumes, represented the American Literacy Council and the London-based Spelling Society and stood outside the Grand Hyatt on Thursday, where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being held. Their message was short: Simplify the way we spell words.

Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va. elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell.

"Our alphabet has 425-plus ways of putting words together in illogical ways," Mahoney said.

The protesting cohort distributed pins to willing passers-by with their logo, "Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much."

According to literature distributed by the group, it makes more sense for "fruit" to be spelled as "froot," "slow" should be "slo," and "heifer" — a word spelled correctly during the first oral round of the bee Thursday by Texas competitor Ramesh Ghanta — should be "hefer."

Meanwhile, inside the hotel's Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of the language in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and biauriculate.

While the protesters could make headway with cell phone texters who routinely swap "u" for "you" and "gr8" for "great," their message may be a harder sell for the Scripps crowd.

Mahoney had trouble gaining traction with at least one bee attendee. New Mexico resident Matthew Evans, 15, a former speller whose sister is participating in the bee this year, reasoned with her that if English spellings were changed, spelling bees would cease to exist.

"If a dictionary lists 'enough' as 'enuf,' the spelling bee goes by the dictionary, therefore all the spelling words are easier to spell, so the spelling bee is gone," Evans said.

"Well," Mahoney replied, "they could pick their own dictionary."
 
RA is correct.... some people need to get a life ... I wonder how they'd spell fornication ?

No four letter words, please !!!!

Charles
 
Of course they want it to be easier...let's all hold hands and sing kumbayah in a land where everyone's a winner...

There's nothing wrong with putting out a little effort to acheive one's goals...wether it's spelling a word or working for a living. Something those idiots need to try, since they seem to have so much free time on thier hands...
 
Of course they want it to be easier...let's all hold hands and sing kumbayah in a land where everyone's a winner...

There's nothing wrong with putting out a little effort to acheive one's goals...wether it's spelling a word or working for a living. Something those idiots need to try, since they seem to have so much free time on thier hands...
E before I . :p
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Wheels
 
Of course they want it to be easier...let's all hold hands and sing kumbayah in a land where everyone's a winner...

There's nothing wrong with putting out a little effort to acheive one's goals...wether it's spelling a word or working for a living. Something those idiots need to try, since they seem to have so much free time on thier hands...

"wether" = "whether"...... -1 for spelling. :evil4:
 
Of course they want it to be easier...let's all hold hands and sing kumbayah in a land where everyone's a winner...

There's nothing wrong with putting out a little effort to acheive one's goals...wether it's spelling a word or working for a living. Something those idiots need to try, since they seem to have so much free time on thier hands...
I before E :p
:lol:
 
Besides you American's already have spellings that are easier than proper English with your removal of letters from words... ;)

Exactly! I mean, if you guys are gonna call yourself "English", shouldn't you learn how to speak and write the language?

:lol:
 
So we shuld speek mor lak returds ?

Sh*t. If you wanna write like a retard, it is your call. But don't start bitching to try to make everyone write "retardish" like yourself.

What's the problem with some of those protestors ? Not enough sex in their life ?
 

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