As you have probably noticed already, I'm not a very good speller. (However, some of my spelling and grammar errors are due to the fact that I can't type very well. this, although it is beside the point, leads me to interject a quote I like very much: "if I could type, I'd be dangerous" -Greg Lundberg. but I digress.) The good thing about this is that spelling is not really as important as everyone says it is. Let me tell you why.
I think people have blown the importance of spelling way out of proportion. Sure, it's beneficial, and necessary, to have a standardized base to work from, but it seems that many people have lost sight of the real role of spelling. Spelling is just one facet of written communication, which is just one facet of language, which is just one facet of communication. Spelling is a [non-necessary] part of communicating. The point of communicating is to get an idea across to another person. If I wrote:
"I would like to receive my pepsi now"
or
"I would like to recieve my pepsi now"
The same idea is being conveyed in each sentence, but the latter would earn me a -5 point in big red letters if I handed it in on a college paper to a professor. Why? Because the professor has a skewed interpretation of the importance, and purpose, of spelling.
I wrote the sentences to communicate an idea. I didn't write them to spell the words right. In each sentence, the idea was conveyed; my goal was reached. End of story. Since the main idea of communication is getting ideas across, we should be allowed a bit of flexibility in doing that. if you can get what I'm trying to say from what I write, then my idea got conveyed, and that's all I really care about.
