i've become a better speller.
$Zero
i never used to use spell check.
but now that it happens automatically as i type, and gives me various
possible word options w/ a quick and easy right-click of a mouse
button over the _immediately_ highlighted word, i use it all the
fucking time. partly because i have no choice.
as a writer, the idea that i have never used spell check probably
sounds rather insane to you.
because surely these features have long been part of all popular word
processors for years and years.
but i almost never used word processors to write.
at best, i'd used Notepad, which still has no spell check.
but now that i can open up a web page instantly, and Firefox (or
whatever) already has spell check activated, it's become so easy and
natural to make use of spell checker that i can offer up almost no
resistance to it whatsoever.
still, i refuse to capitalize and whatnot, and hopefully none of that
will become automated by Firefox (or whoever).
but i have indeed become a better speller simply by virtue of the
constant alerts i am given as i type.
i've learned by rote.
even most of my typos have been eliminated.
...
anyway, there was never any spell check when i wrote stuff on paper.
i wonder if i used to capitalize back then...?
the main reason i don't capitalize now is that it requires the
simultaneous depression of the {Shift} key.
one of these days, i'll have to go back and check my notebook archives
to see how and when i capitalized stuff.
but not now, nope.
because right now i'm far too busy plowing out more and more useless
nonsense.
...
by the way, spell check, i still insist that spellcheck should be one
word, not two.
so fuck you.
-$Zero...
water on the moon.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/b8e794a209f8ac53
Ray Haddad
wrote:
>as a writer, the idea that i have never used spell check probably
>sounds rather insane to you.
Now, if only you were capable of conquering grammar and punctuation.
--
Ray
$Zero
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:08:56 -0800 (PST), "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >as a writer, the idea that i have never used spell check probably
> >sounds rather insane to you.
>
> Now, if only you were capable of conquering grammar and punctuation.
no need.
-$Zero...
if it ain't broke, don't...
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/57fa97fd1e2abf77
$Zero
> i've become a better speller.
>
> i never used to use spell check.
http://twitter.com/yokoono/status/5712949838
http://twitter.com/yokoono/status/5712949838
note the timestamps.
-$Zero...
is the earth flat?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/4c237fbb97c68261