Málfríður - 15.05.1994, Blaðsíða 21

LEIRBURÐUR
Beware o/'heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: It's said like bed, not bead-
For goodness' sake, don't call it deed!
Þeir eru ófáir sem hafa glímt við enska stafsetningu og framburð
í gegnum tíðina. Það þótti því mörgum vera guðsgjöf þegar að því
kom að hægt var að láta forritið í tölvunni finna stafsetningarvillur
og koma með leiðréttingu. En lífið verður seint svo auðvelt að
tölvan leysi öll okkar vandamál, að minnsta kosti þau sem varða
enska stafsetningu - það sýnir eftirfarandi óður sem Jerry Zar,
Dean of the Graduate School, Northwestem Illinois University
er skrifaður fyrir:
An Owed to the Spelling Checker
I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule
The checker pour o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have a laps,
We wood be maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of non eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best vee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew preys
Such soft ware four pea seas.
And why I brake in two averse
By righting want too pleas.
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