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Post by Artemis Windsong on Feb 24, 2014 20:47:31 GMT -5
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Post by billisonboard on Feb 24, 2014 22:44:45 GMT -5
E-I-E-I-O
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 25, 2014 0:40:00 GMT -5
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Feb 25, 2014 15:47:47 GMT -5
I don't think so. Is it on youtube?
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Post by EVT1 on Feb 25, 2014 21:45:35 GMT -5
That's dumb- could have just pulled out science dictionary and ended it.
Never understood the point of spelling bees- because they hinge on learning words nobody uses. Might as well as be a game of concentration IMO. Hit em with the words that sound the same but are spelled differently depending on context- maybe then I will give them any credit if they win one.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 25, 2014 22:23:41 GMT -5
That's dumb- could have just pulled out science dictionary and ended it. Never understood the point of spelling bees- because they hinge on learning words nobody uses. Might as well as be a game of concentration IMO. Hit em with the words that sound the same but are spelled differently depending on context- maybe then I will give them any credit if they win one. I've never understood the point of hitting a white ball with a stick and running back and forth a lot, but that's basically the premise of baseball, golf, ping pong, and probably several other billion-dollar franchises. Mankind likes to compete, even at fundamentally pointless activities. |
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Feb 25, 2014 22:55:29 GMT -5
Spelling Bees don't measure a person's level of intelligence. It's a "contest" - nothing more.
There are many brilliant people who are/were terrible at spelling - case in point:
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Keats
- Fanny Flagg
- Albert Einstein
- Winston Churchill
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Agatha Christie
- John F. Kennedy
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 25, 2014 23:20:29 GMT -5
I don't think so. Is it on youtube? not sure. but highly recommended. it is not about spelling, at all. it is about achievement under difficult circumstances. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2014 14:22:07 GMT -5
That's dumb- could have just pulled out science dictionary and ended it. Never understood the point of spelling bees- because they hinge on learning words nobody uses. Might as well as be a game of concentration IMO. Hit em with the words that sound the same but are spelled differently depending on context- maybe then I will give them any credit if they win one. I've never understood the point of hitting a white ball with a stick and running back and forth a lot, but that's basically the premise of baseball, golf, ping pong, and probably several other billion-dollar franchises. Mankind likes to compete, even at fundamentally pointless activities. For competition, pointless activities is all you have when your sitting at the top of the food chain. |
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Post by Lizard King on Feb 27, 2014 8:59:45 GMT -5
Well, almost nobody, he said epexegetically.
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Post by the flying reindeer on Feb 27, 2014 14:02:56 GMT -5
For heaven's sake, people, this is a competition for children, not adults. Or didn't any of you have spelling tests in school? This is just an outgrowth of teaching kids how to spell.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2014 15:26:40 GMT -5
For heaven's sake, people, this is a competition for children, not adults. Or didn't any of you have spelling tests in school? This is just an outgrowth of teaching kids how to spell.
There are quite a lot of kids who are not good spellers (less effective memory, whatever). It's a little hard on the ones that are the always the first few to miss-spell all the time isn't it ? |
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Mar 4, 2014 18:52:32 GMT -5
It builds the vocabulary while involving goal setting and family participation. If a child is competing then adults are helping.
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