Unusual combination of talents

[Axtremus]

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/1014312875/scripps-spelling-bee-winner

One 14 year old with a spelling Bee championship title and Guinness World Records for bouncing basketballs.

[Horace]

Cool. I hope she uses her powers for good.

[Loki]

That’s a very interesting duathalon.

I think her accomplishments are great! Our future rests in our kids hands.

As a side note I did read somewhere this week that Guinness business model these days is to monetize record setting and ergo their records are not what they used to be.

[Axtremus]

@horace said in Unusual combination of talents:

Cool. I hope she uses her powers for good.

Machiavellian!

Link to video

[xenon]

Do people stop spelling competitively after high school?

[xenon]

Her super power may just be discipline instead of raw talent. I bet she can do other things well.

[Doctor Phibes]

@xenon said in Unusual combination of talents:

Do people stop spelling competitively after high school?

The people who write the reports I have to review seem to have some kind of weird competition going regarding spelling, but not in a good way.

[Horace]

According to my reading of posts on NextDoor, which should resemble a representative sample of people who live around me, 80% of people can't write a complete sentence, and each sentence fragment contains multiple spelling and grammar errors.

[jon-nyc]

@xenon said in Unusual combination of talents:

Do people stop spelling competitively after high school?

Not me. The stakes are just lower now.

[Copper]

Do we have any bad spellers at tncr?

Do we have any good spellers at tncr?

With spellcheck turned on, we'll probablee never know.

[Jolly]

Apparently, you haven't read any of my stuff. Typos and screw-ups abound...

[Catseye3]

@copper said in Unusual combination of talents:

With spellcheck turned on, we'll probablee never know.

Huh. Spellcheck is an ass. It gives you things like 'slinked', 'got another thing coming', and worst of all, 'alright'.