Hi, Evrybudy!
This is Old Bear ritin 2 U agin and I hope you all had a nyce Christmas and a Happy Nu Year cus me and my
man did. And now it's almost alredy Valumtyme Day and I hope U get lots of them frum ur gud frends.
The pitcher at the top of this ritin is of me and a reel purty lady that belongs to the Jane Douglas Chapter of the
Dawters of the American Resolution wen I wus at one of their meetins.
Did U know that peoples laff at the way I rite cus I never went to school so never lerned 2 rite 2 gud and
speshully spelling is sumthing I don't du very gud. I lerned 2 spell the wurds by sumpn called fonics which means
listenin 2 peoples say the wurds then spellin the wurds like they sound. Sumtyme I make misteaks cus wurds sound the same
but are spelled diffurnt. Like wurd and word. And I don't no much abowt sumpn kalled grammer either.
But ritin is sort of fun so I'm goin 2 keep on duin it and U can reed my ritin if U want 2.
Mr. Eddie sent me sumpn thqt made me feel a lot better abowt the way I rite. Here is wat he sent:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht 1 was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan innid.
Aoccdrnig to a rseheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the Itteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and Isat Itteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset ean be a taotl mses
and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm* Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey Iteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 America Online: RJEAZ
I thought that maybe Mr. Eddie had sent us sumpn in secret code but I purty soon figgered out what it sed.
That luks lyke a purty ezy way to rite. It's sort of lyke throwing a hole handful of ritin leters up in the air
and then makin wurds out of wat kums down.
My man told me sumpn that he had read in a magzine or a book or sumpn abowt reedin. Wat he red wus that peoples who
du wat is kalled 'speed reedin' mostly jist reed rite down the middle of a page or a paragraf and don't hardly ever luk at
the ends of the ritin lines.
I guess that these peoples have to have all the leters in a wurd in the rite order cus reedin down the middle of wat
Mr. Eddie sent wuld get sumone all mixed up.
My man told me a secret abowt duin a ritin. He sed that wenever he kan't think of sumpn to rite he jist puts in a
pitcher sumplayce wear sum ritin shuld be then he wuldn't have sew much ritin 2 du. That is a purty gud idea so that's
jist wat I did here.
Yesterday I kissed a girl in a private place,
We were behind a tree...
Carey, age 7
The pitcher is lyke wat was on those old timey valumtyme lyke wat used to be sent to speshul boy frends and girl frends..
I don't member valumtymes very gud cus I guess I never did get any. But my man sez that wen he wus little he wuld
go to the dyme store with jist 20 or maybe 10 cents and culd buy a hole pakage of Valumtymes. Then he wuld rite a boy's
name or a girl's name on each valumtyme card and then take all of them to his skool and put them in a Valumtymes box.
Then wen it got 2 be Valumtyme Day the teacher or sumone wuld take out a card and call out the name that was rit on it.
Then that boy or girl wuld get that Valumtyme.
Next tyme I du a ritin it will be alredy March. Maybe by then I'll have a trip sumwear to tell you about.
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