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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcher who wrote (736)	1/18/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Hi Marc, A fascinating scenario--do you really believe this will take place? Regardless of how the words are transmitted to the written page, by writing or orally, they will need to be interpreted by the eye that reads them. They come back by way of a text, if I understand what you're saying. And that eye will connect to a brain that will need to have a fundamental grasp of spelling or it won't understand what it's seeing. Or do you see a movement toward the use of an international phonetic approach? Reading is a much faster method of absorbing information than listening, so I don't see the written word being replaced by verbal communication. Text will still have authority. Do you mean that a computer will take over the whole function of getting it to the page? Heck, my spell check screws up all the time. However, I am very technically handicapped. And perhaps our clinging to our ideas of proper English usage are merely the actions of threatened children clutching their Linus blankets, not willing to give up our known structures for this technological tsunami that's sweeping over us!