![]() ‘But someone else may say, “Well, I have no interest in learning how to spell. They’re often the poets and the writers who really love the structure of words, in the same way a photographer might love to nerd out in front of camera catalogues. ![]() ‘There’s heaps of people who go down that rabbit hole and find a lot of joy there. While many people might dislike, or even detest spelling, Dr Pont highlights that just as many people find a real enjoyment or fascination in it. ‘It just depends on whether you offload the work to the robot, or you work together with the robot – which is sort of interesting and a bit cyborg-y – to also increase your own capacity, rather than to just let something else take over your capacity,’ Dr Pont says. It’s like a little robot friend that teaches you some basic stuff that maybe a human never had time to teach you. I think a student could absolutely use a spellchecker to learn about their own writing practices. ‘It’s really amazing to have a program to check your spelling. However, Dr Antonia Pont, a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, is keen to acknowledge the positives of spellcheck technologies. Frankly it’s no surprise that, in an age where technology aids us in so many ways, we turn to autocorrect to spell our words for us.īut does that render spelling a redundant skill? The internet has an abundance of opinion pieces on the dying art of spelling thanks to autocorrect. ![]() ![]() There are so many rules, but there are almost as many exceptions to those rules. Spelling is, and has always been, somewhat problematic, and we can attribute that to a pattern of irregularity in letter pronunciation that affects 25% of English words. The English language is tricky – there are no arguments there. ![]()
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