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My DS6 loves comics but it drives me crazy that they spell so many words wrong on purpose like "laffs" instead of "laughs"
I am not buying anymore, I am afraid it will screw my DS up.
My DS asked my about "Laffs" so I know it is not good for him. Why do the comics do this??? I guess the older kids know the words are spelled wrong on purpose??

I don't know about comic books, but the Junie B Jones books do it too. They are also written like a kindergarterner might usually talk. My DD6 gets confused about why they are not written correctly, and while she likes the stories in the books she doesn't like reading them because herself becasue of the bad grammar.

Oh really??? I didn't notice that about the Junie B books. My DS6 had to read one for school this year. I forget which one. I have to go and take a look. I don't get why books do this. The comics are sooooo bad.

I have enjoyed ds' devouring comics & it has not been an issue with spelling. He did start with cartoons like calvin & hobbes and peanuts, which don't mispell stuff. I was also perusing 'classic comics' which they still print and I loved when I was a kid.

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the tip about calvin and hobbes and peanuts.
The captain underpants really got to me. They spell "hipnotize" as "hipnotise" on the cover! My DS6 will not know that is misspelled unless I point it out. When I told him comics spell words on purpose sometimes he said "well, at least you told me". At his age it would confuse him.

hYp...

sorry, i had to. throw stones at me.

ooooh! yes, once you get the mispelling thing going it's a very messy time!! NO ONE here should be throwing stones on that front, I am thinking


You're right, I think at least in america it is hypnotize...not sure if that varies in other countries.

Also, I wanted to post the Classics Illustrated web page, I think this is the right one...took me a while to dig up.
http://classicsillustrated.classiccomicstore.com/default.asp

LOL JJs is it really hYp????

Well you can see I am not GIFTED !

See now the cover even confused me I thought it WAS hip not hYp at least!!!

Thanks for the link!

Speaking of hip vs hyp:

I can remember years ago (I would say about high school... may have been college, not 100% sure) that I completely drew a blank on how to spell the word "use". I wrote it correctly, but then kept erasing it and rewriting it, starting with both a y and a u, over and over again. It was crazy!