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An owed to the Spelling Checker

Having busted Ry's chops on spelling yesterday...  this seems apt.  It's certainly not new - except that it is new to someone, somewhere, here on the intertubes.



I have a spelling checker, it came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it, your sure reel glad two no,
Its vary polished in it's weigh, my checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing, it freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed, and aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen, eye trussed to bee a joule;
The checker pour o'er every word, to cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a veiling checkers hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have a laps, we wood be maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite, of non eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me, it does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den with wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can, sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays such soft ware four pea seas.
And why I brake in two averse by righting want too pleas.

14 Comments

That hurt my brain....
 
SpellCheck is a robot programmed by an ignoramus who was brainwashed by the New Spelling Nazis of the '90s.

Why else would those annoying red lines appear beneath such perfectly good words such as  "judgement" and "cancellation"?
 
Spellcheck is perfectly capable of fooling you into thinking you could pass third grade.
 
Oh god, my EYES..

IT BURNS
 
What I think is interesting (for us Firefox users anyway) is that there are country-specific dictionaries. For example, the Canadian pack (so I'm told) flags "color" as wrong, but not "colour," and so on.

Maybe Ry has the Serbo-Croatian pack installed... :)

 
With you on that, Bill T...I remember "cancelled" and "travelled," but spell checkers don't like the double l.  I haven't been able to determine if I'm wrong, or if the language has changed.
 
Neither, April. SpellCheck is just the latest tool the demonic minions of the Gates-Dewey-Mayan cabal have hijacked in order to have us all writing in haxor by December 21, 2012...
 
Oh, the only thing sadder than Bill typing that is that I understood that.
 
Quothe the originator of the term, "Shaitan-im-Redmont"...
 
Redmond, RedmonD, dammit!  Shaitan-in-Redmond!

Sheesh.
 
Wot?  People goging at me inability to spell? 

Don't need Serbo-Croat.  I can foul up English just fine. (And, man, you should see what recipients of letters I sent to Japan in Kanji and hurigana had to deal with.  Oi vey.)  ;)

 
Hmmpf.

SWWBO didn't make all that fuss over RedmonT...
 
I will give Ry a reluctant pass.  When you have to spell things like '(6aR,9R)- N,N- diethyl- 7-methyl- 4,6,6a,7,8,9- hexahydroindolo- [4,3-fg] quinoline- 9-carboxamide' correctly your brain gets too full to deal with petty little details like readability of your reports or whether you spilled some on page 6 which is conspicuously missing after being reviewed.

BillT should know better though given his h4x0r skills which probably include pouring the sand out before booting.

Before those country specific dictionaries the colour and flavour of your English was decidedly non English.
 
Heh.  ANd to think time once was I could sketch that in 10 seconds or less.  ANd do a full RSA in less than 4, highest yield RSA in less than 10.  (Hey, planning a convergent synthesis is a work of art; rush the artist you get crappy art)

Sigh.  Life sucks when you're a mutant (or mutated by something you played with) and can't do what you spent a large part of your life training to do.  

BArtender!  Rootbeer float, heavy on the float.  And who absconded with all the Cheetos?!  Where's HF6?!  Grrrrrrrrr. 

Unk, you know SWWBO isn't nearly the pedant Josn is.  She takes agreement and is satisfied. ;)