What's funny is, the standardization isn't really all that standard. For example, public schools generally still don't have computers, or if they do it's something like a Commodore 64 or some other dinosaur. And class size is too high in public schools, primarily because they don't have enough teachers, which is in turn because Americans do things for money alone and teachers make about as much as an assistant crack whore.
Even worse, under these "No Child Left Behind" rules, we can't even tell what's happening because the only way to keep the school afloat is whitewashing the data with various manipulation techniques.
Oh, BTW, it wasn't a tyop. There are a few basic online spelling problems:
Typo -- basically this happens because of the nature of the keyboard; includes transposing letters, not hitting a letter, hitting a double letter twice, and so on.
Misspelling -- this happens because you simply don't know how to spell the word; this would happen in any writing.
Spellchuck -- what happens to proper nouns, jargon, and other words not listed in spellcheckers when you run something through a spellchecker first, changing every "error" found.
Engrish -- what happens when you run something through an online translator.
Voice-entry typo -- what happens when you use boys commands instead of a quay board or a Maoist.
Encoding error -- these come in two varieties, one associated with the byte sex and one with the character set being used; both typically corrupt the entire message.
Jon (Geez, for all that, is it any wonder my ancestors preferred oral tradition?)
