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It would be great to judge a spelling bee "Spell threw." "Can you use it in a sentence?" "I threw the ball through the goal.", amirite?

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"Spell there."
"Their house, where they're going, is over there."

hloonvses avatar hloonvse Yeah You Are +47Reply

i hate to be a dippity downer, but cant the speller ask for the definition as well?

Ebony_Ways avatar Ebony_Way Yeah You Are +10Reply

They had a joke like this on the Simpsons, with the word "whether/weather"

This was on an episode of the Simpsons -
"Spell weather"
"Can you use it in a sentence please?"
"I wonder whether the weather will be fine today"

You made my day get better. :] This is hilarious.

Anonymous +4Reply

Back in first grade, we had a spelling test with the word eye in it. When we asked the teacher to put it in a sentence she replied with, "I see with my eye." She was completely serious. This sounds stupid to me now but our first grade brains weren't that smart.
/coolstory

AllyKats avatar AllyKat Yeah You Are +3Reply
@see doesn't even sound like eye?

"I see with my eye."
"I see"
"I"

@Noctowl "I see with my eye." "I see" "I"

Yes, but how would you think that eye and I would be interchangeable in that sentence? Even a preschooler knows better than that. Unless you're a moron and think the teacher honestly meant "Eye see with my I"

Bunch of dummies on this site apparently.

Anonymous -12Reply
@Yes, but how would you think that eye and I would be interchangeable in that sentence? Even a preschooler knows...

No...you're the dummy. They asked her to use the word in a sentence. She used two words that sound the same. They didn't know which one she wanted them to spell.

Inmate_24601s avatar Inmate_24601 Yeah You Are +7Reply
@Inmate_24601 No...you're the dummy. They asked her to use the word in a sentence. She used two words that sound the same. They...

It's not that hard to tell. I get what you're saying but seriously just because two words sound the same doesn't mean that you can't tell them apart. Unless you think saying "Where are the clothes you are going to wear" Could possibly mean "Wear are the clothes you are going to where?"

See how fucking stupid you sound when (even as a first grader), you don't realize that? I got that shit long before I started school.

Anonymous -19Reply
@It's not that hard to tell. I get what you're saying but seriously just because two words sound the same doesn't...

Wow. I don't think you understand. The kids wanted to know what the word they were supposed to spell was. The word was eye. The teacher said I and eye in her sentence. Therefore, the kids did not know whether to write I or eye for the answer. They weren't confused about the sentence structure, but rather the word being defined through context clues. So please don't try to prove me wrong with your profanity when you don't even know what you're arguing about.

Inmate_24601s avatar Inmate_24601 Yeah You Are +8Reply
@Inmate_24601 Wow. I don't think you understand. The kids wanted to know what the word they were supposed to spell was. The word...

I do understand what you're saying. I'm just saying by hearing that fucking sentence you can tell whether or not she meant "eye" or "I" regardless of how they sound without floundering around going "Holy fuck! What does she mean OMG eye and I sound the same!!! I don't care what your stupid first grade class though, the word defined by the context clues is EASY to understand for even a 2 year old! My nephew understands these things and he's 3!!! Because why would a teacher want you to spell "I" What kind of teacher wants you to spell that?? And more importantly I think, how dumb was your class for your teacher to think that "eye" was a hard word. LOL
And I can use profanity whenever I fucking want you stupid cunt thank you very much :)

Have fun being stupid, it's going to be cool to hire you to work as the janitor for my company in the near future.

Anonymous -21Reply
@I do understand what you're saying. I'm just saying by hearing that fucking sentence you can tell whether or not...

First of all, it wasn't my class.
Secondly, eye is a difficult word for first graders.
Thirdly, the point is that the words sound the same...and not sentence structure, once again.

Also, I am a sophomore in an AP English class, and we just had the word "February" on OUR spelling test to put an emphasis on capitalization. I think that's important for first graders as well. Nice try, though. It was cool to see you finally understand the post, even though I had to explain it to you a few times.

Finally, I doubt you will ever own a company, judging by the intelligence of your post. However, I would be honored to be your janitor if you ever needed one. In the words of Bill Gates: "Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity."

Inmate_24601s avatar Inmate_24601 Yeah You Are +9Reply
@You are a fucktard.

I guess I'll take your well constructed comeback as an admittance that you were wrong.

Thanks :)

Inmate_24601s avatar Inmate_24601 Yeah You Are +7Reply
Anonymous 0Reply
@I do understand what you're saying. I'm just saying by hearing that fucking sentence you can tell whether or not...

Well good for you that you're apparantly a master speller, but it seems you have some problems with comprehension.

AwkwardMoments1s avatar AwkwardMoments1 Yeah You Are +2Reply
@Yes, but how would you think that eye and I would be interchangeable in that sentence? Even a preschooler knows...

Jeez, calm the fuck down.
English isn't my native language. We only started learning it in school during the first grade, so for young kinds just starting to learn a new language, 'eye' was a hard word. Plus, our spelling words were the same as our vocabulary words. We were probably learning about different body parts back then or whatever. Don't get your panties in a bunch.

And thank you Inmate_24601 for trying to explain what I meant even though Anon was being ridiculously rude.

AllyKats avatar AllyKat Yeah You Are +4Reply
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@1495560

But you don't know i they are talking about the first threw or the second through.

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@1495635

Yes. But do you understand how a spelling bee works? The speller would still not know which of the two words they were supposed to spell.

Inmate_24601s avatar Inmate_24601 Yeah You Are +9Reply
@1495635

I think you're missing something here . . .

AwkwardMoments1s avatar AwkwardMoments1 Yeah You Are +4Reply
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@1495962

Hahaha yeah. That guy got a little defensive about his comprehension skills...or the lack thereof...

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