How important is spelling and grammar. I remember spelling test from kindergarten and I also remember that I was never good at them just as I continue to be a poor speller as well as grammar. I don’t truly feel that both are very important as long as my thoughts and ideas are not lost with my errors.

Another way I look at is that I am much more of a speaker than I am writer or reader that, I write as if I were speaking and while I am speaking I don’t pay attention to which there I am using and so when I write I type which ever one pops in my mind. I don’t always catch my error because when I proof read my righting I read it allowed. See my problem?

Here is an [unsigned] article which is making the e-mail circuit. It tries to prove that all of us read with a whole word approach.

"Can you raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid; aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!