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sparkindarknessMY bloody spellchecker.
Alright, it catches most of my appauling typos caused by mind and hands moving way too fast for the keyboard or rational spelling to keep up. And yes it is chocked full of weird words like Chiminage that no rational spellchecker should really contain.
But does it have to be so bloody puritanical?
If I've made a typo in the word 'sex' or 'fuck' correct it please. No, I did not mean to type 'six' and you bloody well know it! Look, there's nothing else it CAN be - if I've typed the word 'fuick' it clearly screams 'oops pushed the u as well' I mean it's right next to the I on the keyboard. It does NOT mean I want to type flick. Or Quick. I mean c'mon what kind of lousy spelling makes you write 'quick' as 'fuick'? And a leper typest missing several essential digits isn't going to get it that wrong.
Damn spellchecker's oppressing me.
Alright, it catches most of my appauling typos caused by mind and hands moving way too fast for the keyboard or rational spelling to keep up. And yes it is chocked full of weird words like Chiminage that no rational spellchecker should really contain.
But does it have to be so bloody puritanical?
If I've made a typo in the word 'sex' or 'fuck' correct it please. No, I did not mean to type 'six' and you bloody well know it! Look, there's nothing else it CAN be - if I've typed the word 'fuick' it clearly screams 'oops pushed the u as well' I mean it's right next to the I on the keyboard. It does NOT mean I want to type flick. Or Quick. I mean c'mon what kind of lousy spelling makes you write 'quick' as 'fuick'? And a leper typest missing several essential digits isn't going to get it that wrong.
Damn spellchecker's oppressing me.
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*falls over laughing*
Date: 2004-04-08 04:04 pm (UTC)Re: *falls over laughing*
Date: 2004-04-08 05:01 pm (UTC)(And, damn you, now I'm going to be giggling over it the rest of the night.)
i know exactly what you mean!
Date: 2004-04-08 11:37 pm (UTC)Re: i know exactly what you mean!
Date: 2004-04-09 03:20 am (UTC)Well yes, In shorts I learned alot. But that has Nothing to do with this Term paper!
glad I caught that with the white-out before I turned it in.
Re: *falls over laughing*
Date: 2004-04-09 04:02 am (UTC)Re: *falls over laughing*
Date: 2004-04-09 08:51 am (UTC)I suggest a meaning of 'expletive suggesting exhausted exasperation - such as having finished a long and tiring task and then realising something is wrong with it 'oh fuick'.
Re: i know exactly what you mean!
Date: 2004-04-09 08:55 am (UTC)ESPECIALLY because the eye has some strange freaky computer screen blind spots. you can re-read your work on the computer screen 100 times and STILL not see the blatantly obvious typo. Then you print it out and lo, it's obvious at a glance.
Re: i know exactly what you mean!
Date: 2004-04-09 09:25 am (UTC)The idea was, that someone with a typo had made a mistake. Someone using tip-ex had spotted the mistake and was content to use a bodge up to fix it rather than re-print/re-write the work.
It was deeply unfair.
Re: i know exactly what you mean!
Date: 2004-04-09 03:44 pm (UTC)Re: i know exactly what you mean!
Date: 2004-04-09 03:48 pm (UTC)Re: i know exactly what you mean!
Date: 2004-04-09 04:07 pm (UTC)