Words of Blinding

I would love to meet the inventor of spelling...i googled and nout. I am far far from a good speller, my spelling would probably fall into the 'tragic' category. But surely it doesn't matter that much? I'm sure everyone would still be able to understand me if I was to spell one or two words incorrectly in this sentence. Isn't spelling just, ever so slightly pretentious? I met this person the other day, older, had a job and words cannot describe how clever he was, just wow. The best thing about this man was, he couldn't spell, at all, and he honestly couldn't give a shit.