Comments on: Okay or not OK? https://grahamclements.com/okay-or-not-ok/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=okay-or-not-ok Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Mon, 27 May 2013 01:39:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/okay-or-not-ok/#comment-1446 Mon, 27 May 2013 01:39:20 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/okay-or-not-ok/#comment-1446 Anthony and Mozette,

I prefer the traditional spellings, especially of okay: OK just looks like a text abbreviation to me. But change happens and if publishers and editors want color, OK and realize, then that is what I will give them, just as long as I KNOW that is what they want.

]]> By: Mozette https://grahamclements.com/okay-or-not-ok/#comment-1447 Sun, 26 May 2013 11:41:33 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/okay-or-not-ok/#comment-1447 Being Australian, I am hanging onto the old traditional way of spelling all of my words; no matter how much the Americanised our spelling is becoming. My niece – who is an Aussie – started her own language where she spelled every word with a lot of accented 'U's and 'Z's and it looked very Latin instead of English has found it difficult to get the hang of spelling now she's in high school. I did advise her to be careful about inventing her own language and becoming too immersed in it too much at such an early age (she was 10 or 11 when she invented her language; but at that age you can't tell kids).

I write all my stories and books with Australian spelling, comment on others sites, blogs and forums with the Australian/British spelling as well, and yet I still get pulled up by Americans who think I'm spelling words wrong, that my tenses are wrong, the way I write is wrong… and it's not me, but yet it's not them either. It's how we're brought up and what we use to spell in the way of dictionaries and thesaurus'.

I'm not saying I'm right or wrong with my spelling, however, I'm writing the way I write because of where I come from… not because I wish to conform with the American way of taking over our lives. I'm sticking with my spelling traditions because my teachers taught me to spell and I'm making sure their work and guidance isn't lost.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/okay-or-not-ok/#comment-1448 Sun, 26 May 2013 09:35:06 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/okay-or-not-ok/#comment-1448 Interesting post Graham. May be no correct answer. Personally I think we should hang on to the traditional English spelling rather than the more American ones. They have enough influence over the internet and literature as it is.

Is that ok?

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