I just wanted to point out a couple of weird things about life here in England.
First: What's up with this? The first time I encountered it was back when I was starting the Tae Kwon Do thing with David (which we don't do anymore). A little girl in the class was spelling her name: "My name is spelled Luh Ih Luh Luh Yeh." Yep, her name was Lilly. I thought, how weird. But now our Lily is in what they call Year 2 of school, equivalent to 1st grade, and doing spelling tests, and I'll be darned if she doesn't spell things that same way: House - "Huh oh uh suh eh" Train - "Tuh ruh ah [rhymes with at] ih nuh" and so on. Now, maybe I'm not remembering my school days as clearly as I used to, but didn't the letters used to have names? And wasn't learning those names part of kindergarten and first grade? What gives?
Second: Ok, I know I'm not the only one, because I saw a few other similar comments when I was looking for a picture to borrow for this. There's a cartoon on TV here, don't know if they have it in the states, called "Peppa Pig." The drawing style is rather simplistic. Which makes the Pig family look a lot like, um... well, here:
... especially Daddy Pig, with his stubble. If you don't see what I'm talking about, well, good for you, I guess, but is it just me, or is someone having a little naughty chuckle?
3 comments:
Well, I didn't see it till you pointed it out, and even then I had to throw my mind a little further into the gutter.
As for the spelling, no you're not remembering wrong. This is a lovely little process called "dumbing down" and it seems to be an epidemic in schools around the world. My friend was telling me the other day that her 5 yr old son is a VERY talented speller... he spells things like hydraulic and binocular. His teacher spells things on the board like "jmp" for jump... so that's what he's been coming home and doing lately. She had to have a little chat with him, and convince him to go back to spelling them the way he knows them to truly be, as opposed to what the teacher is writing in class.
Someone definitely is...
LOL! I have watched that with my kid's and never noticed it before. How could I have missed it?
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