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If you're getting a business degree, what's the excuse for mispronouncing business? If you can't pronounce it in fluent English, automatic fail on any oral rep

If you're getting a business degree, what's the excuse for mispronouncing business? If you can't pronounce it in fluent English, automatic fail on any oral reports. I think people would quickly see the issue with this. Failing someone with a speech impediment isn't acceptable, even in a public speaking class. Spelling is not that different, given how much of ones ability to spell a word is related to ones ability to pronounce a word. Yes, if there are a few specific words people could try to just focus on perfectly memorizing them, but what's the value in that? And if they mess up, that really deserves a 0? I also expect students to stand during their presentation. No excuses or automatic zero. If some may think this is a comparison too far, I'm someone with a speech impediment from childhood which led to a long struggle with spelling and I don't really see how it is different.

WalterBright 2y ago
Would you buy a business textbook entitled "Bizziness" ? Me neither. > I'm someone with a speech impediment from childhood which led to a long struggle with spelling and I don't really see how it is different. The spelling in your post is perfect, so I infer you did overcome it. Great! One can also have one's roommate check a term paper for spelling. I'd even write "business" on a card and refer to it as necessary. It's not like needing a dictionary. Just 5 words or so. Little story: I would contract out the work preparing brochures for my business. I would have to correct the spelling every time. The contractor would get annoyed with that. One day, he prepared a brochure, and sent it to the printer for thousands of copies. He proudly showed it to me. The first thing I noticed was the headline was misspelled. He wound up fixing it and rerunning the print run at his own expense. Misspelling in business is not only unprofessional, it's costly.
- jncfhnb 2y ago
  I would rather buy a finance book that correctly defines present value than spells business right
  - WalterBright 2y ago
    It's a bit hard to test you on that, because I've never heard of a finance book that didn't spell business correctly, regardless of its content. I do know that I stop reading articles on the internet that the author couldn't be bothered to use a spell checker on. There's way too much to read, why waste time on sloppy writers?

WalterBright 2y ago

Would you buy a business textbook entitled "Bizziness" ? Me neither. > I'm someone with a speech impediment from childhood which led to a long struggle with spelling and I don't really see how it is different. The spelling in your post is perfect, so I infer you did overcome it. Great! One can also have one's roommate check a term paper for spelling. I'd even write "business" on a card and refer to it as necessary. It's not like needing a dictionary. Just 5 words or so. Little story: I would contract out the work preparing brochures for my business. I would have to correct the spelling every time. The contractor would get annoyed with that. One day, he prepared a brochure, and sent it to the printer for thousands of copies. He proudly showed it to me. The first thing I noticed was the headline was misspelled. He wound up fixing it and rerunning the print run at his own expense. Misspelling in business is not only unprofessional, it's costly.

jncfhnb 2y ago
I would rather buy a finance book that correctly defines present value than spells business right
- WalterBright 2y ago
  It's a bit hard to test you on that, because I've never heard of a finance book that didn't spell business correctly, regardless of its content. I do know that I stop reading articles on the internet that the author couldn't be bothered to use a spell checker on. There's way too much to read, why waste time on sloppy writers?