Fox and Friends: Spelling is Hard!

I could only make it 90 seconds in before the blond's stupidity overwhelmed me.

- "There's no 'd' in "soldiers."

- "Do they even sell hardcore dictionaries anymore?" (she meant hardcover???)

The worst volunteer job I ever did was cameraman for my college's news show, which was a bunch of young republican student types about as intelligent as this. Imagine sitting through a solid half hour of this. You can't just zone it out but have to pay careful attention so you don't miss cues.

Xenocide - 2008-06-12

You really should stick around until the spellcheck part. That's the kicker.

Hooper_X

- 2008-06-12

Oh, Brown Haired Guy Who Isn't Steve Doocy.

God forbid people want to simplify the Frankenstein's Monster that is the English language. It's a ridiculous cobbled together pile of a thing that takes in everything in its path and the end result is downright fucking schizophrenic.

We probably really would be better off streamlining the spelling of words, honestly. If nothing else, it would reduce the incentive to make your kid into a total scombridae.

Xenocide - 2008-06-12

Am I the only one who enjoys the challenge? I'm fluent in English and Spanish, and Spanish is all phonetic. It's easier, but less fun.

I am a huge fucking nerd.

Keefu

- 2008-06-12

English wonderfully unique in all it's crazy ways of working and I wouldn't have it any other way.

joyofdiscord

- 2008-06-12

Spelling reform is for fucking idiots.

Hay Belly - 2008-06-12

It's been tried before, by some guys named Carnegie and Roosevelt. But no one does their homework obviously.

Screwtape

- 2008-06-12

That would be double plus good.

Camonk

- 2008-06-13

You act like English's flexibility and ability to absorb words is somehow bad. You wanna have a language with the biggest lexicon in the world, you're gonna have some irregularities.

-1 star for making think that maybe someone on Fox News kind of had a point in a left-handed, roundabout way.

Bort

- 2009-10-27

The problem isn't English's flexibility and ability to absorb foreign words; the problem is that our phonetic alphabet isn't reliably phonetic. There are multiple reasons for this; for example, back when they were trying to formalize the correct spellings for words, the spellings were based upon one particular dialect (in London I believe) while the pronunciations were based upon assorted dialects, which varied at that time to the point of nearly being distinct languages.

kwash - 2010-03-31

Good job on working that scombridae joke in there.

Senator_Unger

- 2008-06-12

"Of course it's tricky, it's the price of admission."
If you weren't born a native-English speaker, then what the fuck are you doing here, brownie?

glasseye

- 2008-06-12

"THESE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO DUMB DOWN AMERICA!"

Such acrobatic leaps of logic can only be made by these conservative types.

Rodents of Unusual Size

- 2008-06-12

Yes, sweetie. They don't have dictionaries anymore. After the island of Rand McNally was discovered, people could have them downloaded into their brains directly through exquisite magic.

takewithfood

- 2008-06-12

Holy shit, there are hardcore dictionaries? So I've been reading wussy dictionaries this whole time? It just figures that I find this out now that they don't sell them anymore.

panipuri

- 2008-06-12

you and your sissy dictionary are ruining america! you gay terrorist lover!

Desidiosus

- 2008-06-12

*fist jab*

taschenrechner

- 2008-06-12

I bet more "illegals" can spell 'monkey' than can average Fox news viewers.

Caminante Nocturno

- 2008-06-12

Did that guy just blame the Wii for this news story?

Hooker

- 2008-06-12

Where's the brown haired guy that's not Steve Ducy tag?

kwash

- 2009-10-10

Supernova's not even a real last name!

Very good.

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