For those who "can't understand your english"

[Robotron]

Wasn't there a study at some point that proved there was no correlation between intellect and spelling aptitude?

[Bioness]

Wasn't there a study at some point that proved there was no correlation between intellect and spelling aptitude?

I'm using stupid in reference to both intelligence and motivation. Most of the time spelling is little more than memorization, which some of the smartest people hate just as much as everyone else.

Having said that, given how we are communicating through the internet, with a myriad amount of resources that correct not just spelling but grammar as well, to be a noticeably poor speller speaks more about ones desire to correct themselves rather than their actual knowledge.

[smilkovpetko]

Wasn't there a study at some point that proved there was no correlation between intellect and spelling aptitude?

I'm using stupid in reference to both intelligence and motivation. Most of the time spelling is little more than memorization, which some of the smartest people hate just as much as everyone else.

Having said that, given how we are communicating through the internet, with a myriad amount of resources that correct not just spelling but grammar as well, to be a noticeably poor speller speaks more about ones desire to correct themselves rather than their actual knowledge.

That's because you never tried to talk and spelling chinese and macedonian.

[Robotron]

Having said that, given how we are communicating through the internet, with a myriad amount of resources that correct not just spelling but grammar as well, to be a noticeably poor speller speaks more about ones desire to correct themselves rather than their actual knowledge.

This is true, though this doesn't connect it with one's intelligence. By the way, the correct usage is "with myriad resources."

[smilkovpetko]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism

Some studies have found that groups of multilingual individuals get higher average scores on tests for certain personality traits such as cultural empathy, openmindedness and social initiative.[15][16]

The idea of linguistic relativity, which claims that the language people speak influences the way they see the world, can be interpreted to mean that individuals who speak multiple languages have a broader, more diverse view of the world, even when speaking only one language at a time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect

Eye dialect is the use of nonstandard spelling for speech to draw attention to an ironically standard pronunciation. The term was coined by George P. Krapp to refer to the literary technique of using nonstandard spelling that implies a pronunciation of the given word that is actually standard, such as wimmin for women; the spelling indicates that the character's speech overall is dialectal, foreign, or uneducated.


Who are those "foreign" that will always make wrong spellings?

Russian,Chinese,African (languages),South Americans (languages) .

World is not "English" language, but indeed is using it as international communication.
In fact "foreign" should use multi language dialects and accents in order to spell something .
This doesn't make them stupid , but rather it makes them more intellectual than the ones that they use 1-2 Languages.

[Bioness]

Having said that, given how we are communicating through the internet, with a myriad amount of resources that correct not just spelling but grammar as well, to be a noticeably poor speller speaks more about ones desire to correct themselves rather than their actual knowledge.

This is true, though this doesn't connect it with one's intelligence. By the way, the correct usage is "with myriad resources."

Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Myriad myriads of lives." This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word mrias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun mrias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective mrias was used only in poetry.

Both usages are correct, although I suppose I could have removed the word "amount".

[Robotron]

The usage I cited is the one that'll earn you brownie points with college professors. =p