Words the Firefox spellchecker has claimed to me are not words tonight:

[flux@wandering.shop]

@mcc monster.

[jrose@social.belkadan.com]

@mcc …and now I see the iOS “Look Up” feature lists both spellings, but typing “pescetarian” still shows a red underline. >< Maybe I shouldn’t be trying to help

[demize@unstable.systems]

@mcc I’ve always spelled it color, and I was born here and have lived here my whole life

[megmac@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc no u

[plumbert@thecanadian.social]

@mcc It's ok. We have been underfunding the education system for so long lots of people are terrible at spelling.

<grin, duck, run>

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Plumbert You're joking but you don't know how right you are. You have no reason to know what the TAAS test is or how it destroyed America

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@megmac :O

[flux@wandering.shop]

@mcc or rather, "mounster"

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mcc still, they must be so diusauppoiunteud

[ellie@ellieayla.net]

@mcc in css, we've all done things we're not proud of

[plumbert@thecanadian.social]

@mcc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Assessment_of_Academic_Skills?

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@mcc sacre ble

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@Flux @mcc that's a cheese

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Plumbert Yeah.

The governor of Texas around the time this was introduced, at about the time that it was new enough it seemed like it was having good results but before the bad effects became visible, later became President and took the TAAS philosophy national by passing a bill that heavily incentivized standardized testing.

Meanwhile, I was one of the first students to take the TAAS and then slipped out of the Texas public schools system before it became a factory for producing TAAS scores

[scruss@xoxo.zone]

@mcc the bigger the dictionary, the more false-positives. The really big word lists (like wamerican-insane, over 660,000 words) have errors: and neither pesc[ae]tarian nor kigurumi feature there.

[plumbert@thecanadian.social]

@mcc Canadian provincial education departments have introduced, changed, withdrawn and reintroduced standardized testing all over the place. I wrote standard tests as a student in Saskatchewan in the 1970s. My kids had standard tests in Manitoba when they were young, and there are different ones now (one of my kids is a teacher). Every time they "discover" that teachers are pressured to teach to the test. "Discover" but never really learn the lesson....

[dannyman@sfba.social]

@mcc deep down they know you're right.