Comments on: Advertising May Be Harmful to Your Spelling

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:25:20 +0000

The spelling of “Happyness” for the title of the movie is a reference to the school the main character’s son attends, where they incorrectly spell it on the side of their building. He points it out as the first example that he is more intelligent than his surroundings, support that he is better than his current lifestyle. Just thought I’d clear that up and maybe take some of the frustration away from that movie, since they do have a point, and do support proper spelling.

As for “Two Weeks Notice,” well thats just wrong.

By: Catherine, the redhead

Catherine, the redhead — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:03:53 +0000

A larger pet peeve of mine (rather than the butchering of the English language) is when people comment on something they haven’t fully researched…

I like this view of the english language from the book “Spelling Dearest”:

http://www.spellingdearest.com/wst_page7.html

Catherine

By: Search Engine Marketing

Search Engine Marketing — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:44:09 +0000

ha ha ha … thats a great post … i’ll vote for ya!

Darin

By: DPeach

DPeach — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:12:34 +0000

Good points in this post.

I don’t know that you would need to see the movie. The spelling is wrong, and, as you say, it reinforces poor spelling in the general public. There are too many bad examples of this.

One example that my wife often points out is when day care centers have cutesy spellings for their names. That is the wrong demographic to be teaching poor spelling to. Or, they will turn their letters around like a child wrote the word. Again, reinforcing a dyslexic way of writing letters.

By: Maeve

Maeve — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:17:43 +0000

I stand duly chastened. In future I’ll not comment on a title without having watched the film. I don’t want to be like the Ibsen character who has read enough ABOUT certain books to disapprove of them.