When spell checkers are *not* your friend

[donutsweeper]

Dear Mr. Spellchecker,

Gibbs talking about being threatened by an ex-wife with cast iron is a smidge different than being threatened with castration.  The latter probably would have made him a bit more upset.  Quit trying to change it in my story.

Comments

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

How did it get gonads from Kenadie?

Maybe the 'nad' part? Who knows? I think they panic when they don't know what the word is and just throw something random at you. In Firefox, it wonders if I mean Grenadier, which...is sort of closer? Maybe? If you squint?

Usually, when I am spelling something wrong it can't come up with anything close to the word I meant to spell. *sigh*

I know! That old elementary school trick of sounding it out doesn't work with Spellcheckers. I also find it amusing that Spellchecker is not in the spellchecker. :-)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

half the time I wind up using the thesaurus, trying to look up a similar word to find the word I wanted. Except after a few minutes I have forgotten the word I wanted in the first place