tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post3071054279948941618..comments2023-10-26T22:06:11.166+11:00Comments on Metamagician3000: You say phenomics, I say phonemics ... let's call the whole thing offRussell Blackfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-72582186678823963722007-09-18T20:57:00.000+10:002007-09-18T20:57:00.000+10:00Ah, I see. Still, I doubt whether I could spell a...Ah, I see. Still, I doubt whether I could spell any of those words. I often joke that I belong to the "F7 generation", never having needed to learn how to spell anything advanced because there is always the good old spilchook on my compluter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-49292935474953765432007-09-18T13:55:00.000+10:002007-09-18T13:55:00.000+10:00Stuart, the joke is just that the word The Austral...Stuart, the joke is just that the word <I>The Australian</I> wanted was not "phenomics" but "phonemics". Not exactly a spelling mistake, I suppose, but certainly a problem with written English in the same story in which the paper was making quite a fuss about the weaknesses of primary school teachers in that regard.<BR/><BR/>Thankfully, I don't seem to have mispelled "embarrresing" or "subteraneun" or "addalesence", or the other one, whatever it was, in my own post ... though I did use "subturranian" in a creative way.<BR/><BR/>Oh well, I thought it was funny when I read the article ... and I bet the journalist is pissed off if she's since worked out her mistake, or if it was made by someone who "corrected" her work before it went to print.Russell Blackfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-67628556096298006432007-09-18T12:36:00.000+10:002007-09-18T12:36:00.000+10:00I suppose I should get the joke, or at least prete...I suppose I should get the joke, or at least pretend to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-56246048014440174132007-09-18T10:59:00.000+10:002007-09-18T10:59:00.000+10:00Perhaps phenomics is the study of phenomenology of...Perhaps phenomics is the study of phenomenology of economics? Or just being economic with the spelling of phonemic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com