Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 19, 2020

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    KenTheCoffinDweller  over 4 years ago

    A bit confused. As someone who has taught various subjects to many different age groups, why would it matter that the second test had the same words again, if the end goal is to have the students learn to spell that set of words?

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    Concretionist  over 4 years ago

    Why DO we learn to spell? Lately, I’ve found, it’s so we can get close enough for the spell-chequer to guess which one you intended.

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    qct  over 4 years ago

    I am amazed at how many words spell-check does not know.

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    jpayne4040  over 4 years ago

    A lesson you truly don’t want to learn.

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    rf_in_va  over 4 years ago

    We learn to spell so that we don’t appear to be ignorant, as ignorance implies a lack of self improvement.

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    sandpiper  over 4 years ago

    Reading the comments, I hear echoes of my own wonderment that Google, Firefox, etc have such poor dictionary storage. Readers/writers are forever having to educate the spell checkers. One has to guess that the original idea of a complete on-line reference sounded super, but when the sheer volume of possible content was calculated, it was beyond their early capabilities and they opted for basic data. They knew that, in time, they would be able to increase the acreage. However it happened, I appreciate the effort, which has saved me many goofs over the past 40 or so years.

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    asrialfeeple  over 4 years ago

    Maybe he’s thinking it isn’t worth the trouble?

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    Bill The Nuke  over 4 years ago

    Perhaps it was a lesson to those too lazy to learn from their mistakes.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 4 years ago

    I knew a guy — not the brightest bulb on the marquee — who had to take the written portion of the driver’s exam 5 times before he finally got the minimum score (75%) needed to pass. Of course it was the same set of questions each and every time. Yet, after barely reaching that mark on the best day of his life, he’s legally entitled to drive America’s highways and byways indefinitely. There are more like him out there, folks!

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    beady.el  over 4 years ago

    Make up test? Maybe he’s studying cosmetology…

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 4 years ago

    Mallett Blog PostsFrazz16 hrs ·

    http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2020/02/19If inspirational, motivational quotations worked as well as they seem like they should, my high school teams would have won a lot more games, given the multitude of those quotes taped and pinned up and scrawled all over the locker rooms. Come to that, I myself would be a lot more accomplished, given my love of such quotes and sentiments. It’s possible those adages do work as well as you’d think, but it’s a competitive world, and my teams and I may well have been running up against teams and individuals with similarly wallpapered locker rooms.

    One of my favorites went, “If you don’t have time to do it right, when are you going to have time to do it over?” Which is a departure from a number of my other favorites, most of which were about learning from your mistakes and compelling enough to almost make goofing up look appealing. But that first one was indeed to the point, if intimidating, and when you’re given to the occasional lazy or otherwise paralyzed day, you need a version that won’t curl you up into your own catatonic shield of stubborn resistance. Something like, “the second chance is unlikely to be any easier than preparing in the first place.”

    Whew. Nailed it on the first try.

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