Does Anyone Know How To Spell ?

Grammar and spelling were a basic part of my early education.

I mean real early, 1st through 5th grade.

This would have been the late 1960’s and early 1970’s public school.

Now, 30+ years later we rely on the red underlines from our spell checkers to find spelling errors, or the green underlines to find our grammar mistakes.

We’ve become accustom to using short hand as we text or tweet and it turns out we can read words that have missing letters.

Our brains are smarter than memorizing correct spelling and grammar rules.

Which brings me to another, related subject.

My wife and I now have 6 grandchildren including 4 under the age of 2.  Humans learn how to understand verbal communication before we are able to say the words ourselves.   Calvin, pictured above, isn’t spelling yet but he’s pretty smart.

My sister in-law stayed at our home a few days last month, cat sitting and remarked that our cat was smart.  I’ve come to believe that many animals are probably as smart or smarter than humans but haven’t developed the language skills we use to communicate.

For example, do you think the geese in this picture are really on their way to gymnastics?