Do We Need Proper Inglish and Spelling?

I know some people and even myself are not 120% perfect with spelling or English but since we were all taugh in schools and college that help us to do better. But I may not have perfect speech, but I would say just pretty good. So, before reading begins, must necessarily be skill in oracy-: i.e., to be able to understand words spoken to them and, even more important, to be able to form and to speak sentences which others will understand. But I know this is different in deaf culture don't need to speak. They can do better with reading, writing and grammar skills.
 
Silentwolfdog said:
All I know is that it's hard for me to understand how they speak if they used a different dialect due to the fact that I don't have advantage of hear the similar sounds.

Like for example, I would get very confused when someone said this, "I axed this person..." when she really meant "I asked this person..." (I knew one classmate who speak like this.)
For someone like me, I would get lost in game of puzzle. Trying to figure out what they are saying. Trying to remember that "th" can be replaced with "d" or figuring out what dis or dat means. Ugh!
I would think it wouldn't have been too bad if it has a written system, like English. Then that way I could learn it by treating it like a foreign language like English is to me.
But it seems like they are not made to be written.
Well, I dunno. All I know is that it's hard already to know many ridiculous rules of English, but to have other language that is similar to English but with their own system would make my head spinning.
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I'm the same way as you. I have a lot of difficulty with cockney and other accents. I used to know someone who had a very strong Boston accent. She'd say things like I pahked the cah in the pahking lot and I'd interupt this as I packed the car in the packing lot.. What she was saying is this: I parked the car in the parking lot.

Took me a while to get used to it. She didn't think much of my ability to lipread. I just told her I wasn't used to New England accents so I have to remember the how they pronounce things differently.

When accents are spelled the the way they sound, I have a hard time following words in print. I had a hard time with Mark Twain's Huck Finn at first for this reason. To make matters worse, I'm a southerner and I'm told I have a southern accent.
 
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