lense

[Kal (Andrew)]

It seems as though the last ten times I have read the word lens on the internet (various astronomy forums) it has been incorrectly spelt lense. Is it just me or are alot of people having difficulty spelling this four letter word?

[Kal (Andrew)]

actually, my post was the 500th post on IIS alone with the word in it

research

[Ian Robinson]

lense may be the correct spelling in some languages.

[AlexN]

Wow.. you sound like my grade 5 teacher.

Does it really matter? I take it you understood what they were getting at?

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

I don't worry so much about the incorrect spelling, its the incorrect use of the word that gets my goat most of the time.

[Kal (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Ian Robinson

lense may be the correct spelling in some languages.

Tho closest for the other languages is 'linse' in Norwegian, or 'lente' in Portugese. Other common translations are objectif/objectiv, or lens!

I'm not 100% sure of the spelling of 镜头

[Kal (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by AlexN

Wow.. you sound like my grade 5 teacher.

Does it really matter? I take it you understood what they were getting at?

It matters because it annoyed me enough to make a post!

[AlexN]

Sounds fair enough to me

[PCH (Paul)]

Originally Posted by Kal

It matters because it annoyed me enough to make a post!

Jeepers Andrew, don't look too closely at most of the posts on IIS if bad spelling upsets you - your ticker will give up the ghost

Cheers,

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

This has been picked over before...
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ght=lens+lense

Cheers
Doug

[OneOfOne (Trevor)]

Don't worry about it too much....

People that don't understand the difference between "then" and "than" are more annoying as the two words are TOTALLY different, not an alternative spelling. One word is temporal while the other one is comparative.

A car is bigger THAN a ball.

A car is bigger THEN a ball.....yeah, then the ball does what? I was even at a stock market lecture once and the guy used "then" constantly as a comparison, "BHP has performed better then CRA"....arghhhh.....it was even in his handouts. Even more annoying was that he would have gone to school in the seventies...before the current dumbed down and Americanised generation, so he had no excuse! (The same guy was on ACA a few months ago)

To and too are also annoying. Too is a substitute for "also", so "I am going too", "I am going to" is an imcomplete sentence...where are you going to?

I blame the acceptance of mediocrity in schools, you can't tell a kid they are as dumb as dog do!

Well, must get back to my book..."see spot run..."

[JethroB76 (Jeff)]

Originally Posted by OneOfOne

I blame the acceptance of mediocrity in schools, you can't tell a kid they are as dumb as dog do!

Dog do what?

[koputai (Jason)]

Personally I spell lens, 'eyepiece'.

Cheers,
Jason.

[mcross]

Originally Posted by OneOfOne

I blame the acceptance of mediocrity in schools, you can't tell a kid they are as dumb as dog do!

Next time you are reading the paper or driving around, take a look at all of the advertising where words have been (deliberately) mis-spelt - by adults, not teachers or students... Try telling a student that "easy" is spelt "e-a-s-y", not "e-z-y" when they go and get their dvds from Video Ezy every week. One of many examples.

As an aside, as someone who has taught for over 20 years, I have come to the conclusion that, because our English language & alphabet is so riddled with inconsistencies & contradictions, it is a miracle that children learn to spell at all!


Mark

[koputai (Jason)]

Don't get me started on the continuing Americanisation of our spelling!!
The Herald spelling gaol as jail for a start.

Cheers,
Jason.

[Garyh]

Well I am guilty of spelling Lense instead of lens....
Give it a few more years and it will be in the dictionary!
Our language is ever evolving so this sort of thing doesn`t worry me.

[madtuna (Steve)]

Forgive me folks, but can we foster the love of all things Astronomy here and leave the spelling Police at home?

I'd love to invite my 23 year old daughter here but since her brain injury she has had to learn to read and write all over again.
I'd hate to think that through no fault of her own some of you good folk may be looking down on her as uneducated, dumb as dog-do etc.. because of her poor spelling skills.

Willem Hollenbach and Albert Einstein, just to name a couple were both dyslexic.

With the vast array of different ethnicities, languages, educational standards, we are going to find words spelt in any number of different ways.
Does it really matter, it's the content of the post that matters.




p.s. Andrew..."the" is spelt "the" not "tho" and when you start a sentance you start it with a capital

[Kal (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by madtuna

p.s. Andrew..."the" is spelt "the" not "tho" and when you start a sentance you start it with a capital

*looks at keyboard and where the location of 'e' and 'o' are*

No idea of how I typed that, they are on the opposite sides of the keyboard!

My point to this thread is, that I myself kept seeing the word lense typed, and I started to doubt my own spelling of the word lens. Other peoples poor spelling is seeding doubt in my own knowledge!

Perhaps this is just an example of how language evolves over time. Say something wrong enough times and it becomes a fact!

[Glenhuon (Bill)]

Typos are something everyone does, especially when you don't look at the keboard lke I am nt ding now
But, the quality of spelling has gone right down the gurgler with youngsters who don't have the unfortunate affliction of being dislexic. The "phonetic" spelling thing is to blame, worst idea in education as far as I am concerned.
If it is your native language, you should be able to write it correctly. There are differences, for example, between British and American spelling, and I can live with that as that's the way you were taught. "English, as she is spoke" is not the way to go. The word is Lens (on both sides of the Atlantic).

( A Doric Scot giving english lessons )


Bill

[marki]

As a teacher I wish it was only poor spelling I had to deal with. Often when I address a class many students look at me as if I am speaking another language. Most struggle to string a sentence together and I have had a number of submitted assignments written in phone text shorthand. The other favourite is of course the cut and paste efforts (web links and all) in which the kids have absolutely no input or understanding.

But one thing that does stand out. When I meet the parents of the students with poor literacy skills it is easy to understand why. Parents are the primary educators of their children and if they also struggle with literacy then this will seriously impact the childs grasp on the english language (wittness the shear scope of slang used throughout England and the UK let alone the colonies). Can this be corrected at school? Still, our language is alive and thus must evolve and change over time. I fear in twenty years we will be the ones with the language problem.

Mark