29 July, 2011

Engineers can't spell

I got this email from Randy yesterday. The funny thing is, I was sitting out by the pool when I got it.

(This is the blonde in me....) I was thinking, "How did he know I was sweaty?"


FYI: He meant to write "sweetie".

2 of you are mildly amused:

  1. Priceless - thanks for a giggle. Tell me about it - I once worked with 40+ engineers - but I can tell you doctors aren't that great spellers either - and on top of that they tend to write in a way no living soul can read too!
    R's message reminds me of a scrapped page I once saw with a little boy holding a handmade card for his mom - heartshaped, handcut and ever so sweet - with the text: Mom - you're the beast!
    =0) I am sure she loved it nevertheless!!

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  2. Love love love it! When I taught 8th grade, there was a really short (one page) story I used to have the kids read silently as a warm-up one class early in the semester before I introduced the importance of spelling. I could easily tell which kids "got it" as they read silently. Then I read it aloud with the right (er...wrong) pronunciation. In the story, the boy loses the girl because of his spelling error in a note.

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