In Online Auctions, Misspelling in Ads Often Spells Cash – Such is the eBay underworld of misspellers, where the clueless and sometimes just careless sell labtop computers, throwing knifes, Art Deko vases, camras, comferters and saphires.
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At last some ammunition for the strict spellers among us. Although, admittedly I don’t understand why Microsoft hasn’t built spell checking of text areas into Internet Explorer (like Apple did with Safari) I shudder to think what the level of my spelling on this blog would be without the benefit of the corrections. Still, it’s nice to see an affirmation of the necessity even in our technological world for strong fundamental skills.
I have to admit, I’m amazed at the number of people who went through school just after me who’s arithmetic is poor enough that it’s hampering their ability to learn other math. While memorizing multiplication tables may not be fun or glamorous, I can’t imagine learning to factor and solve algebraic equations without it. Most algebra errors are really mistakes in the arithmetic anyway.
At the same time that we’re complaining about India and China stealing engineering and tech jobs from the United States, there is a drastic shortage of qualified hard science graduates from our own universities. As a university student myself, I think that one reason so many people don’t pursue studies in hard science fields is that they can’t handle the math and actual computation, not that the concepts are too difficult. Is it any wonder that the countries that are snapping up tech jobs are those where a high emphasis is placed from an early age on mathematical and computational ability?
For those that argue that “Indians are willing to work for less” I would challenge you to look at exactly who is graduating from American universities these days. How many graduate students and faculty members are coming from India and China. How many students are forced to put up with instruction by TA’s and Instructors whose knowledge of math and computers is solid, but whose skills at English are lacking. It’s hard to argue that Universities would be going out of their way to hire teachers who have a poor command of the language if there was a large pool of qualified domestic candidates.
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In Online Auctions, Misspelling in Ads Often Spells Cash – [ “(extlink)NYTimes”:http://www.nytimes.com ]
At last some ammunition for the strict spellers among us. Although, admittedly I don’t understand why Microsoft hasn’t built spell checking of text areas into Internet Explorer (like Apple did with Safari) I shudder to think what the level of my spelling on this blog would be without the benefit of the corrections. Still, it’s nice to see an affirmation of the necessity even in our technological world for strong fundamental skills.
I have to admit, I’m amazed at the number of people who went through school just after me who’s arithmetic is poor enough that it’s hampering their ability to learn other math. While memorizing multiplication tables may not be fun or glamorous, I can’t imagine learning to factor and solve algebraic equations without it. Most algebra errors are really mistakes in the arithmetic anyway.
At the same time that we’re complaining about India and China stealing engineering and tech jobs from the United States, there is a drastic shortage of qualified hard science graduates from our own universities. As a university student myself, I think that one reason so many people don’t pursue studies in hard science fields is that they can’t handle the math and actual computation, not that the concepts are too difficult. Is it any wonder that the countries that are snapping up tech jobs are those where a high emphasis is placed from an early age on mathematical and computational ability?
For those that argue that “Indians are willing to work for less” I would challenge you to look at exactly who is graduating from American universities these days. How many graduate students and faculty members are coming from India and China. How many students are forced to put up with instruction by TA’s and Instructors whose knowledge of math and computers is solid, but whose skills at English are lacking. It’s hard to argue that Universities would be going out of their way to hire teachers who have a poor command of the language if there was a large pool of qualified domestic candidates.