<p>Jonri:</p>
<p>There are genuinely bad spellers (my H), and some who can spell well in several languages (me) without much effort. But a lot of misspellings one sees is sheer laziness on a student's part, and usually the symptom of something far worse than a few misspelled words.
But, hey, in France, Wittgenstein or not, an essay with 5 misspellings would be tossed out. And in my days, there were no spellchecks. There were at least three essays on the bac.</p>