Post #529001 by woofmutt on Sun, May 9, 2010 12:02 PM

Wierd.

It's weird.

Weird, huh?

That 'i before e excpet after c" nonsense has screwed up many people. Mainly cuz we only learn the first bit of the poem. And we only learn the first bit because the rest of the poem becomes clunky and forgettable.

My grandmother knew the whole poem and could rattle it off in her sing-songy slightly snide school teacher voice. I didn't pay attention as she was always telling people how to do things correctly. (Thank God I didn't inherit that family trait.)

There are more weird exceptions to "i before e" and you can find books about it at your local library. (CUE: rainbow and stars)

Or you can just give up and go with the no caps spell-it-how-you-feel-it flow. It's the way of the future. It'll be the one bright spot of the machines becoming our overlords, hearing a computer voice say Teh gay! when it disapproves of an action. Then, as it shocks you with a cattle prod a sad face emoticon will cross its visual display screen and it'll say "w00t! EPIC FAIL!!! EPIC FAIL!!!"