Do You Know Whether the Wether is Under the Weather Today?

On the internet I've come across some interesting spellings, that just happen to be real words. Okay, they are painful spellings.

"I don't know weather he did it or not." "The whether is nice today." "The wether is nice today." Of course that last sentence makes a bit of sense, but to say, "The wether is sunny today," might draw a blank stare from those who know that a wether is a castrated male sheep.

The worst (or best, depending on your point of view) examples are found in YouTube comments. Most of the comments are swear words and vulgar comments, with a great many painful (or creative, if it pleases you to look at it that way) spellings of words. YouTube seems to draw a great many people of low intelligence (I am not talking about ability to spell in this instance, I am talking about inability to hold a decent conversation, to think clearly, and to have basic good manners (politeness, tact, kindness). If this is an honest representation of the bulk of our society, heaven cannot help us. We are firmly on our way to self-destruction.

Thesaurus dot com draws an audience only slightly better. I could not believe it when I read comments on the posts Thesaurus/Dictionary dot com has. Could most of those people who commented even be intelligent enough to understand the article they were supposed to have just read? I won't demean the authors of the comments to bring you examples, but the articles were written to appeal to people who would understand the articles. Clearly, that does not happen upwards of eighty percent of the time.

Shall we Accept Except or Shall we Except Accept?

What's wrong with these written sentences?

"We except them. They were excepted."
"They were an acception."

In the first line, what is actually being said is, "They are excluded. They are not part of us." What people often think they are saying is, "We accept them. They are part of us."

The second line actually makes no sense.

So, yeah, it bugs me when people think they are writing, "We accept them," when they are really saying, "We exclude them."

False Knowledge

How can one have false knowledge? Either one has knowledge or one doesn't. Knowing, by definition, is to be aware of truth. To "know falsely" is to not know, therefore, people may think they "know" when, in fact, they do not. False "knowing" is a lie. It is not knowing, just like there is never a light made out of darkness. If false light is darkness, how can it be light?

Apart and A part

Have you ever noticed that "apart" means "separated from" even though the word is together?

And have you noticed that "a part" means "together, or part of the whole" even though the word is separated?

Did you notice that inflammable and flammable mean the exact same thing (something that can be set on fire)?