I find it odd that people can misspell anything in today's world. Anything remotely electronic has a spell check program. It wouldn't surprise me if calculators had that function now. There is now always something to keep us from making heinous spelling mistakes. Yet, somehow people manage to misspell words. And I'm not talking about text slang that all the young people use nowadays (U R gr8!, LOL :)). I'm talking about words where the program calls you out on your mistakes. Words that are misspelled in a blog or word document program have the dreaded red underlining. On your phones and tablets, they actually take over and correct your mistake for you. How is any human being or hyper-intelligent chimpanzee misspelling words?! You literally have to tell the program you think it's wrong and spell it your own way. What kind of arrogant douche does that? Is it some sort of patriotic stand? Example: "I don't need no computer telling me how to spell disappointment. I'll spell it with two S's and one P if I want to. It's my right as an American to have freedom of speech!" Or are you somehow so confident in your spelling skills that you might have convinced yourselves that the computer programmers made a mistake and you can't be wrong? Example: "I took 3rd place in my 4th grade and 9th grade spellings bees. I think I know how to spell "rediculous." (Barf)
You literally have to go over the programs head and proclaim your righteousness on how right you are. Because that program tries to stop you multiple times before eventually just giving up and letting you spell it like a quasi-illiterate dumbass.
Now, I imagine you'll want to point out my numerous spelling errors in this blog. You would be right to. I do absolutely no editing other than obvious spelling mistakes. Otherwise, writing programs can't correct me when I leave off a letter that would make it plural, singular or show possession. In fact, my most egregious mistakes come from missing ENTIRE words! Words that are vital to a sentences composition and flow. In my mind, I wrote it. But my fingers did not type them. Or I spelled a word right but it was not the word I meant but spell programs can't correct for words that make a sentence cogent. Or I edited a sentence with a different word but didn't correct the other words to make the sentence flows. Everything I post here is basically a rough draft written and corrected by a lazy 11th grader with a penchant for criticizing everyone else on their writing.
Yes, I know the irony and hubris is both delicious and aggravating. In fact, I'm sure there is a minimum of 3 mistakes in this post alone that I won't bother correcting. It's not as though I have a reputation at stake. If I don't correct it, my vast readership might lose interest? I have a total of 3 people reading this blog anymore and that's a generous assessment. If I lose all 3, that just means I get to write completely judgment free!
You see, there is a silver lining to everything if you look for it.
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