I'd like to hear your theories: why is it you suppose that Freepers can't spell???

[CatWoman]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7437980

[lamp_shade]

1. They're all in fourth grade?

[rainy]

2. Because they are "morans."

[Oceansaway]

3. inbreeding...n/t

[Poseidan]

53. seconded

They mostly come from small-towns. Small-town, small gene-pool. Before you know it, or realize it, you're fucking your sister.

[Dr.Phool]

4. They were casting asparagus when they should have been studying.

[CatWoman]

11. I just love that "casting asparagus" line

:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

5. Because

computers became easy enough for them to operate.

[teamster633]

6. I don't have a theory,

but I saw a great example in our local paper's LTTE: "Palin is our countries future".

[shraby]

7. Home schooled by people who can't spell?

Are they spelling phonetically with a southern accent?
Low I.Q.?

[quickesst]

54. Jesus Fucking Christ.....

Might want to double-check that. I'm pretty sure the spelling is correct, but I do live in Arkansas, which happens to be in the south. Probably a shocker for you since everyone knows there are no bad republican spellers in the north, east, or west. Thanks.
quickesst

[pecwae]

66. You'd think those backasswards

Southerners would do something about the way they talk. Don't they realize how fucking stupid, illiterate and hickabilly they sound?

[LanternWaste]

75. Almost as bad as those from Boston and New England...

Almost as bad as those from Boston and New England.

Guess there should be a law that no colloquialisms, accents, or dialects should be allowed, and we all talk precisely the same way.... :sarcasm:

[Kelvin Mace]

8. Disdain for fact,

you know, like how to spell words, basic math, understanding what they word "theory" mean, inductive and deductive logic, skepticism, etc.

[Muttocracy]

14. ooh, I bet you're right - they should teach ALL spellings of a word, not just one! nt

[ulysses]

26. "i before e except after c" is only a theory anyway.

[Muttocracy]

29. I had no problem spelling those words until the day I heard that rule

late in childhood and it messed me up - now I always have to write things out both ways and figure it out.

[louis-t]

32. Haaa! Funniest response yet.

My mother taught me all of those great phonics sayings 45 years ago. I still use them.

[Vickers]

9. I'm sure there are many cognitive and/or physiological reasons,

but pure old dumbassedness has to be right up there.

:P

[flvegan]

10. They're all just preaching to the quier anyway.

[MrsBrady]

12. no edumacation ?

[Muttocracy]

13. education helps your spelling AND your political slant... nt

[LondonReign2]

15. They lack morels

and other fungus. They also lack brain cells.

[ColbertWatcher]

16. Theory #1: They're writing in tongues. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

17. Theory #2: They hate education so much, they refuse to recognize spelling as valid. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

18. Theory #3: They've never seen anything in writing; they only listen to talk radio. n/t

[YOY]

19. Because the facts have a notorious liberal bias.

Just like that evil Webster and his dictionary...devil filled lies. Look at this liberal elitist!!!

[Quantess]

20. Proper spelling is for elitists.

Only big city elitists on the East Coast can spell and use proper grammar. Good spellers hate America. :crazy:

[EFerrari]

21. Because they're stuck in the 14th Century. n/t

[DoctorMyEyes]

22. I'm glad you asked!

I've been thinking about this for years! Years, I tell ya!

I'm not a scientist or a doctor, but I believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with most conservatives - in a physiological sense. It's almost like a form of retardation and the inability to spell is just one of the symptoms. I'm' thinking that one day we'll discover that it is something as simple as their mothers not getting enough potassium while they they were carrying them. Some of them can be "trained" to spell better - but it's a most basic "tell" when you're dealing with a typical right winger.

There brains have gaps where they shouldn't and make connections were they shouldn't. They're "wired" just slightly off.

Who among us here hasn't been able to accurately "guess" a persons political affiliation based on their spelling? Just the other day I saw a common right wing mis-spelling of "loser" here as "looser". And knew before I even clicked that they were going to have a low post count.

[flstci]

63. heh It's kind of funny that you have so many misspelled words

in your post.

I know, I have a low post count and probably shouldn't point that out but it hit me as funny.

I think some people are simply better spellers than others and political affiliation doesn't matter.

[DoctorMyEyes]

65. I know!

And we have a spell checker underlining every one in red to let me know while I'm misspelling it too! LOL

I'll grant that nobody is going to ever hire me as a writer - and yeah, both sides have bad spellers. There's a pattern to theirs is what I think was being keyed on in this post. I may mis-spell a word, you may mis-spell a word, but they're probably not going to be the same word, the same way.

It's almost like most right wingers went to an alternate school with an alternate dictionary.

Why do so many of them spell loser "looser"? Moron "moran"? Ridiculous "rediculous"? Maverick "mavrick"?

Oh, and welcome to DU! I wasn't hatin' on the low post count people, not even the one I referenced in my post. I didn't follow them around to see if they were "posing", a recent convert, or just a bad speller like me who just coincidentally happened to spell loser like a freeper.

[MikeNearMcChord]

23. AOL doesn't have spell checker?

And speaking of spell checker, why is the name Obama still considered a misspelling?

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. !!!

:spray:

[bemildred]

24. No books, too much television. nt

[TahitiNut]

56. Yes ... and not enough handwriting practice ... letters, journals, etc.

Virtually every person I've ever known with good penmanship, a love of reading, and the habit of writing letters, postcards, diaries, etc. has been a liberal.

[unpossibles]

25. elistist scumbages triyng too scoailize langwage and speling.

their awl mavriks who do'nt nead no edukashun.

[ulysses]

27. turn it around: why do the linguistically challenged become Freepers?

[CatWoman]

39. because they can't put food on their families???

:hi:

[ulysses]

41. a mind is a terrible thing to lose.

:hi:

[CatWoman]

44. OR

"what a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind" (Dan Quayle)

:)

[ulysses]

45. honestly, did you think that, in your lifetime, they'd find an even emptier vessel

than Quayle to run for VP?

[CatWoman]

59. lol

that was a mighty tall order to fill!!!

who woulda thunk???

:rofl:

[TahitiNut]

57. More likely, I'd say ... lingusitic skills and ability to discuss in the abstract.

Without either, the development of comprehension suffers.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. Functional illiteracy.

They've completed some education, and can technically read.

But since they never bother to actually read anything, their spelling and grammar suffer.

Not to mention logic and reasoning.

[VP505]

30. For the same reason they are Freepers

they are stoopid.B-)

[leftofthedial]

31. they all are stupid.

it explains the spelling and the world view.

[InternalDialogue]

33. They're just bad signmakers.

Here, I'll help out a bit:

[randome]

34. Um. Not to rain on anyone's parade but...

...there are plenty of DU'ers who have trouble spelling, too. It seems a little presumptuous of us to pretend we are somehow better than 'they' are.

Just sayin'...

[RebelOne]

76. I agree. I just want to scream sometimes when I see,

for example, many do not know the difference in too, to, two or they're, their, there and the all-too-common misused lose and loose.

[slackmaster]

35. I suppose that Freepers can't spell because I have observed them misspelling words on many occasions

How about you?

[treestar]

36. They don't read enough

So they don't get such grammar they may have learned reinforced.

[Javaman]

37. Why dos corect speeling hait ameruca? nt

[codjh9]

38. They're stupid, or at the every least - I've worked with a lot like this - they didn't think

English 'mattered' in school. Many years ago, I was working on a project where we were writing up huge computer system manuals before actually writing the system, and this one guy who was a lousy writer said to me 'well, I wasn't an ENGLISH MAJOR'... and another team lead I had basically said the same thing - like only the technical writers could write well. Since when did being able to write well become something that only 10% of people can DO? I don't know, but it's pathetic.

[firedupdem]

40. They don't value education. They are unintelligent people. n/t

[codjh9]

42. They SAY they do, but they really don't. They don't think writing well is important at all! But

how many job ads ask for 'good oral and written communication'?!?!?

[yardwork]

43. 'cause they can't talk?

[Minnesota_Lib]

46. Silent vowels = nuance in spelling. Freepers hate nuance. nt

[garlicmilkshake]

47. Not sure that's a good issue to bring up, I see a -lot- of abysmal spelling here on DU

:shrug:

[lildreamer316]

52. I agree. Lately, it's been really bad.

I was wondering what was going on. There's a check spelling button at the bottom of each box!!

[TahitiNut]

60. Yes ... and there're quite a few on DU with 'closeted' conservative viewpoints, as well.

Particularly economic viewpoints ... as well as the subterfuge of 'identity politics.'

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

48. Because they are lazy.

[alfredo]

49. Here's why

[kiva]

50. Don't know.

Why don't you ask some of the posters on DU who scream "grammer/spelling Nazi" if someone dares to comment on their writing skills?

[Gwendolyn]

55. Most can spell iffen they want to...

... it's just they don't. They want to be back in the day, when it didn't matter. :)

[stillcool]

58. I think that people who consistently..

mis-spell words don't care, or they would use the spell checker. Plus I think that someone who doesn't read is more likely to mis-spell. I've noticed how little I read complete articles on the net. I get such a different feel and understanding when I read a book. I wonder why that is?

[TahitiNut]

61. Throwbacks to the 17th century when 'standard' speling was unknown and ...

... the more 'educated' folk took some degree of stylistic pride in spelling words according to some linguistic or ethnic affiliation. It wasn't until Dr. Johnson published the first English language dictionary that the idea of a 'standard' for spelling achieved some purchase among the lettered folks.

[spanone]

62. ignorami

[LanternWaste]

64. Fayth Baysd Spelling...?

Fayth Baysed Spelling...? :shrug:

[Poiuyt]

67. Eye all ways yews spell Czech

[tkmorris]

68. They wouldn't be Freepers if they were reasonably smart.

Hence the bad spelling. Don't over analyze it, this is one situation where the obvious answer is the correct one.

Freepers are dumber than a truckload of hammer bags.

[shadowknows69]

69. Well presumably none of them paid attention in History or Civics class

So I don't suppose their attention was very focused in English either.

[slampoet]

70. Freepers are trying to tell us they are being held against their will.

[noonwitch]

71. They were home schooled.

That's my guess, at least.

[vanderBeth]

72. I was home-schooled. :(

[Brewman_Jax]

73. Are you series?2??

casting asperagus, like a trool!1!!! Theres nothing rong with my speling!

:rofl:

[TexasObserver]

74. Because spelling requires thinking, and they quit thinking in grade school.