renard_ruse
Break up Amazon
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When insulting someone's intelligence it helps if spell the words you're using correctly.
No, not really. As I touched on in another thread, many Americans are poor spellers. Its not an issue of intelligence. English spelling is idiotic. Its only a test of whether someone has a photographic memory, not of real intelligence to analyze a problem and craft useful solutions.
Many people today learned to read using the whole word method rather than phonics which is one of the roots of the problem (but by no means the whole problem as even using phonics English spelling is irregular in many cases).