In this The Fuzz has been somewhat less successful.
Back in the days, there was a class called Penmanship. As can be seen from the example here, The Fuzz was not what one would consider an Honor Student. In fact, by the time he reached the 7th grade, he was ordered to abandon cursive writing altogether. This was not too big a sacrifice since he couldn't read it himself.
Now it seems to be possible to read his writin' if he draws the letters rather than attempts to write them, as can be seen here.
But there are other aspects to this writin' stuff besides neatness, stuff like grammar and spelling. Now that grammar stuff can get confusing, so well not get into that here. But that spelling business deserves a word or two. It has been said that the English language is 80% phonetic. The obvious problem here is that 20% is not! If this wasn't enough, how does one know if a mystery word is in the 80% or the 20%? I mean, is this fair? And just who decided what's what here?
The fact is, if not for "spell check" you probably couldn't even read this.
So now we've dealt with two of these "R's". One of these days we may get to the next.
3 comments:
ha - ria what did you think the 3 rs were? drawing the letters, that is an interesting perspective on hand writing. now everyone types, i wonder how that is haveging hand writing.
good to know - i don't know what the R's were!. Funny what you said about teh English spelling and phonetics - i can't seem to get it right myself. My Espanol Profesor speaks 7 luangeges, and of all them he said that English was the hardest to learn. He said for the longest time he didnt know that there was a difference betweent he word 'sheet' and 'shit'. he said he was scared to tell his class to take out a 'sheet' of paper for a VERY long time! hahaha he is very funny
ok, that is pretty funny! ;)
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