kind of guy who still remembers what word they got out on in the elementary school spelling bee

[ricci@discuss.systems]

kind of guy who still remembers what word they got out on in the elementary school spelling bee

[kstatz12@discuss.systems]

@ricci I'm the type of guy who can't remember if or what I had for breakfast this morning

[zeushammer@types.pl]

@ricci I will never forget when Danny Somers in the first grade was given "hamburger" and spelled "lunch."

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@ZeusHammer goals

[zeushammer@types.pl]

@ricci I mean I thought it was epic. He did not.

[elb@social.sdf.org]

@ricci subsatellite

[zeushammer@types.pl]

@ricci also for contrast: the red squigglies just told me that it's "omelette," not "omlette" and "spinach," not "spinich" so I am easily impressed.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@ZeusHammer i cant spel anything anymore, fwiw

[tobinbaker@discuss.systems]

@ricci same

[brianvastag@mas.to]

@ricci Same. "Beautiful" is a tough word for a 3rd-grader.

[zeushammer@types.pl]

@ricci I recall one of my high school English teachers taking points off on an essay because I spelled "squirrel" egregiously incorrectly and she thought it was me being defiant or insubordinate or something.

[phaysis@mastodon.coffee]

@ricci In a whole school 5th grade assembly, I, in the 20-contestant round, was told a word, heard another word, pronounced and spelled that other word correctly, and was disqualified. The frozen look on the examiner's face stuck with me more than the wrong word.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@elb colonel, which I mixed up with colonial

[elb@social.sdf.org]

@ricci Fortunately neither one of us wound up in a profession that requires writing.

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@elb thank goodness, that would be a nightmare

[ricci@discuss.systems]

BTW I was like 40 before I realized that most languages don't have spelling bees because why would spelling be hard

THANKS ENGLISH FOR HAVING SUCH SHITTY ORTHOGRAPHY THAT WE CAN COMPETE AT NOT SUCKING AT IT

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@ricci At least it's not also hard to handwrite, looking at you chinese characters (which japanese kept but korean deprecated).

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@lanodan I don't understand why anyone other than imperial scribes would need to write things down

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@ricci what was it

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@aburka

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