Spelling

Alright, I'll be honest. I made it to the school spelling bee several times in grade school. Spelling was always one of my easiest subjects. I try to avoid textspeak, even when texting. "See you later!" instead of "CUL8R" and so forth.
So you can imagine my frustration with all the stupid Facebook quizzes and applications that have TERRIBLE spelling errors. And I do mean TERRIBLE.
Like the one that inspired this blog: "Someone just sent you a bible. Do you want to send your friends some versus?" Oh for the love of all that is good and holy. "Versus"?!?!?!?! And that's probably even one of the less egregious ones.
 I think that it's terrible that we're so lax about how things are properly spelled. Do you know how many of my students would send me emails using textspeak while I was a TA? I'm not convinced some of them can spell some of those words correctly. Or the difference between "their," "there," and "they're." Or "two," "too," and "to." And so forth.
Stepping off my soap box. Hopefully I didn't spell anything wrong in this blog!