Do you have a bigger vocabulary than spelling ability?
By 2004cqui
@2004cqui (2812)
United States
April 8, 2012 6:47am CST
Oh how frustrated I get with my ability to spell. Back in school I learned it was my fault that I didn't know how to spell! How else do you explain an "F" on spelling tests? Then there were the tyrannical teachers who gave out the spelling tests. I didn't like them, so I didn't study.
Here I am today trying to write yet my spelling ability is no match for my vocabulary. To this day if I can't find the right way to spell a word, I change the wording to something more simple. One thing I did figure out is if spell check can't help me, a search engine can! I suppose the search engines have more selection than spell check. I am glad I learned to type by touch! I can use the key board in the middle of the night! It took a long time to build my typing speed though. How about you? Do you have any drawbacks when I comes to communicating!
5 responses
@superbadx (484)
• Malaysia
16 Apr 12
Well, i have a history with spelling. Back in the day when i was in primary school, i have the worse English spelling result among my friends, that last for like 6 years i was in the primary school. But the second i step my foot into the secondary school, i have some kind of a big leap for my English since i just realize that it's so or maybe too easy, maybe i was playing too much when i was a kid. But that just doesn't stop like that, i have the most highest score among my friends (Not the whole school apparently) in my English test and people keep asking me when they didn't know to spell, word, and mostly to make a sentences.
@2004cqui (2812)
• United States
16 Apr 12
I have a terrible aversion to red ink, because of the first 8 years of my education. In fact I think I was terribly stressed in that school! I went on to the higher grades and became just a "grain of sand" in the sea of students. I lost 50 lbs my first year in my new school and the last 10 I had to loose to become well shaped! Anyway I became a new person with a brain!
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
11 Apr 12
I do imagine that is going to be the case. There are many big words that I do tend to use when I speak, that I know for a fact I don't have a hope to spell them. They just sound so cool and I just have to really use them, because it is just amusing to see the looks on the face of people, as they try to act like they know what you are talking about but they don't.
My ability to actually spell, I think it is decent enough. Providing of course I don't get too ambitious beyond my own abilities. Then the problem is going to rather going to draw in. I'll be honest, and I can butcher some words to the part where the spell checker has nothing even close. That might mean that I shouldn't really be using that word.
@jillhill (37353)
• United States
9 Apr 12
I am better at writing then I am talking in person. But I have gotten better....and so that is a good area for me....I always loved spelling and anything to do with words though I wish I could expand my vocabulary.....I try to learn some new words at times..but then again if most people don't know them they also don't know what they mean....but anyway learning something is better then not trying to learn anything at all.
@TheIzers (680)
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9 Apr 12
Aha..you same same story as my husband. he is a bad speller too and all because back then he hated his spelling teacher. There you go 
. We see how a teacher have big influence to people for the rest of their live? Luckily technology today provide so many tool to help us. My husband using dragon at every devices we have at home so he doesn't need to worry about spelling no more. For the record I hate it, lol. I think it's very annoying
but since I know it helps my husband doing his job then I just have to compromise. 
. We see how a teacher have big influence to people for the rest of their live? Luckily technology today provide so many tool to help us. My husband using dragon at every devices we have at home so he doesn't need to worry about spelling no more. For the record I hate it, lol. I think it's very annoying but since I know it helps my husband doing his job then I just have to compromise. 
@sandaikite256 (92)
• Sweden
8 Apr 12
My spelling is good but my vocabulary is very bad and i try to fix it, sometimes other people doesn't understand me when i talk English :P
