OT- Brag: My favorite Kid

Awwwwwwwww. What a kid!

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]BTW, when I asked about the "creative" spelling and capitalization, I was ]told that "I'm not in school right now, so I write the way I want when I'm ]riting for enjoyment." ] ]I can live with that. :-)

Jamie does exactly the same thing - and she'll be 21 next week!

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I have to say that I don't really understand how "writing for enjoyment" and "correct spelling and usage" are mutually exclusive. If I didn't enjoy my writing here and elsewhere, I wouldn't do it -- but that doesn't mean I don't spell and capitalize (and punctuate!) appropriately.

Celine

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@mindspring.com (Lee S. Billings) :

]I have to say that I don't really understand how "writing for enjoyment" and ]"correct spelling and usage" are mutually exclusive. If I didn't enjoy my ]writing here and elsewhere, I wouldn't do it -- but that doesn't mean I don't ]spell and capitalize (and punctuate!) appropriately.

Jamie plays with language the way i play with beads, and her "playing" is determined by who is on the receiving end. she also does it with music. she has creative urges she has not focused yet. she drove her piano teacher crazy. she learned a piece the way it was written and would play it that way for her teacher ONCE. then she'd start playing with it.

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It's the way the schools teach now. At least around here. In elementary school the kids are told to write. They are allowed to spell words any way they like. Then, a couple of grades later they start giving spelling tests and the like but still they let them write with "creative spelling" of words they're unsure of. By the time they hit middle school they can't spell for crap. By high school they no longer care. The teachers grade them down, but the kids don't care. It's how they've been spelling all their lives, after all. Sucks. My favorite kid left for boot camp today. I've been crying for 6 hours. But I did get a bunch of work done in the studio anyway. Tears just help the wax set up quicker. Barbara Dream Master

"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@removedreamweaverstudio.com (Barbara Otterson) :

] My favorite kid left for boot camp today. I've been crying ]for 6 hours. But I did get a bunch of work done in the studio ]anyway. Tears just help the wax set up quicker.

if at all possible, plan on attending graduation. it was worth it to be there!

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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 3:16:15 -0400, Barbara Otterson wrote (in message ):

Actually, my DD went to a parochial school for her elementary years, and they don't teach like that at all. In real life, she has very good grammar, and spells equally well. She was simply yanking my chain because she knows that such "creativity" bugs me.

Not in Massachusetts. For the past X years, we've had comprehensive achievement tests which are a requirement for graduation. It's amazing how writing gets cleaned up when a diploma is at stake. Of course, you only need to perform at a tenth grade level to graduate high school, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.

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Oh God. I don't know if I could bear it. When can your favorite kid have phone calls and visitors? Or at the very least, you can write every day and send cookies and hugs from home.

They grow up so darned quickly. I stay the same: why can't they?

Kathy N-V

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]She was simply yanking my chain because she knows that ]such "creativity" bugs me.

**grin** there is that feature, too.

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]When can your favorite kid have ]phone calls and visitors? Or at the very least, you can write every day and ]send cookies and hugs from home.

uhm - not quite. at least not in the Navy, and i would imagine they are much alike. write - YES. it's heartbreaking how many of those youngsters get NO mail.

however, Barbara will probably get a letter that says NO food packages. they are not only concerned about nutrition but also ants and mice - especially in barracks and with brand-new recruits.

phone calls generally have to be earned - they're a reward for outstanding behavior. otherwise, no calls and no visitors until graduation. but THAT day becomes REALLY, REALLY important to the kids.

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Generally, if/when they do allow food, it has to be shared out with the rest of the unit, with the recipient getting last choice. Or, that was MY Navy boot camp experience. Daily mail was delivered daily-- packages would be held until somebody with proper authority could be there when it was opened by the recipient. If you didn't have mail to read/write, you polished your shoes... again.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Where? MCRD San Diego? If so, let me know when he's graduating-- maybe I can go with you to the ceremony. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Sorry :-( -- but I like the way you handled it.

Deirdre

You can send them a subscription to a home-town paper.... unless that's changed, too. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Kaytee) :

]There was talk about not allowing it, due to pests, ]possible contamination and/or such "additives" as sometime found in brownies, ]but at that time it was only "talk".

yeah - i'd wondered about that, too.

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Kaytee) :

]You can send them a subscription to a home-town paper.... unless that's ]changed, too.

i never thought of that! DUH!

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On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 0:18:50 -0400, vj wrote (in message ):

The BEST kind of newspaper to send to far away friends is one of those local weeklies that lists all the little things that happen in town. You know, little league results, bingo wins and the new flagpole that the Boy Scouts installed. Makes you feel like you never left home.

My favorite is the newspaper in the town where my sister has her vacation home. The town is very, very rural - with only about 500 people scattered over about 5 zillion miles. The police blotter is a hoot: "Mrs. Smith reported that an unknown person was using her deer stand. Investigation revealed several empty beer bottles in area. Investigation to continue"

My far away friends also love it when I send photos of events around town. Seeing the farmer's market, the new road or the kids horsing around at the beach always gets a good reception and a request for more photos.

Kathy N-V

I'd been trying to express simply what the feeling is that I from this "creative spelling" stuff. (Not counting typos and errors). "The medium is the message". Deliberately misspelling is, for me, a statement that you don't respect me and others enough to communicate the best you can, with the additional message that you want to deprive me of clear information. Obfuscation.

Tina

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]I'd been trying to express simply what the feeling is that I from this ]"creative spelling" stuff. (Not counting typos and errors). "The medium is ]the message". Deliberately misspelling is, for me, a statement that you ]don't respect me and others enough to communicate the best you can, with the ]additional message that you want to deprive me of clear information. ]Obfuscation.

then you would be misunderstanding Jamie completely.

*SHE* is playing. i don't know about others, but i do know her pretty well. she knows how to do it properly. when she is comfortable with the person on the other end, she plays with language the way she plays with music. it's more a reflection of her state of mind at the time. most of it is "phonetic". she puts caps in odd places. she plays with the way it "looks" and "feels" to her.

if that makes sense.

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]Trouble is the intention of the writer can be overwhelmed by the effect of ]the writer. This might be the case with your daughter.

well . . . she wouldn't tend to do it, unless she was comfortable, first. which would generally eliminate her overwhelming someone she didn't know.

]On the other hand, ]the trouble maker we had on the newsgroup before was very firmly in the ]catagory of disrespectful and manipulative people. No way I'd take the risk ]of being put into that catagory for the fun of creative spelling.

true. but Jamie wouldn't enter a group that way. she has to be comfortable first. and newsgroups are full of "strangers". added to the fact that the referenced poster went out of her way to be offensive, which Jamie doesn't generally do without extreme cause. the tone of her messages with "creative" parts is always "playful", which is generally pretty easy to tell.

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