Y'know, a while back I read an article on Spongebob/Buster

[conuly]

And the author mentioned that when he was growing up, a mom complained to him that "Sesame Street is just so horrible. I mean, it's teaching children Spanish".

Yeah. Guess that hasn't gone away yet.

Here's that article, if you're curious.

Comments

[conuly]

I know I'm missing the joke here.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

I thought the issue with Spongebob Squarepants and Seseme Street is a supposed norming of homosexuality. Polari is a cant developed in order to allow homosexuals to communicate with each other. If the issues of teaching Spannish and normalizing homosexuality are related, then it may be due to the use of Spannish as a covert language among homosexuals. (http://andrejkoymasky.com/lou/pol/pol001.html")

[conuly]

Oh But. Why are you spelling it "Spannish"?

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

I do things by the rules if I'm not sure.

The rule is in a two-sylable word, short vowels are followed by a double letter. E,g, "latter" vs" "later." I'm guessing from context that "Spanish" is correct.

You know I can't spell.

[conuly]

1. Yup, Spanish, one N.
2. No, actually, I didn't know that. You hide it well. But if you're curious, I *can* spell, most of the time (I still have a bad habit of thinking that necessary has two cs in it) so I'm hardly ever wrong.
3. In a two syllable word, short vowels are followed by a double letter if the next vowel is an E. Because V_E makes the first vowel long.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'll commit that rule to memory.

I think using Microsoft Word has helped me improve my spelling. It used to be absolutely horid. Sometimes I have blank-out moments where I question everything, though. Usually it involves sufixes. -ible vs. -able, -ey vs -y, etc.

[conuly]

Oy vey.

It helps to be an etymology geek, of course. Know where a word comes from, and you can spell it quickly.