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Jane Roken
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Username: magpie

Post Number: 320
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 5:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

The blessings of the automatic spell checker

We all have it, in one form or other, the spelling checker, the “wordy thing”.
And we all use it, more or less, according to need, taste or temper.
But how often do we stop to consider exactly what it does for us?

I came across a very thought-challenging description of just that. It’s too funny to keep to myself; I’d like to show it to y’all.
It is a poem called ‘Candidate for a Pullet Surprise’ - from the profoundly hilarious ‘Journal of Irreproducible Results’.

Here’s where:
http://www.jir.com/pullet.html

Having read this, spell checking as we know it will never be the same.

Jane
Laura Ring
Intermediate Member
Username: laura

Post Number: 369
Registered: 05-2007
Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 6:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Jane, this is hilarious! It reminds me of my friend who wrote an email to the school principal telling her she had picked up some supplies for the school festival very cheaply from a warehouse. She misspelled it as "wherehouse" and the spellchecker gave her a suggestion, which she took and sent the message off. The principal was shocked to hear my friend had been visiting a whorehouse. Oops!
Best,
Laura
LJ Cohen
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Username: ljc

Post Number: 7633
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 7:15 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post



Thanks for posting this, Jane. Loved it.

:-)
best,
ljc
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David Callin
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Username: david_shay_mish

Post Number: 32
Registered: 07-2007
Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 11:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Jane, I like to just go where the spell-checker takes me sometimes. Recently I discovered that I have for years been working, without realising it, with a Mrs. Nausea Madwoman.

And the spell-checker spoke the truth.

David