Re: complain about spelling glitches and reality always bites you

From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 03:53:00 MDT

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    --- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
    > At 04:32 PM 7/21/03 +1000, I allegedly wrote:
    >
    > > The other night on the fairly sophistical
    > >Australian SBS TV news
    >
    > Sophistical is right, given their confusion of
    > `astronomical' and
    > `astrological', but it's not what I thought I'd
    > typed, which was
    > `sophisticated'; my spellchecker must have got the
    > bit between its teeth
    > while my gaze was averted. Maybe the same thing
    > happened to poor Mary
    > Kostakidis's news prompter text...
    >
    > Damien Broderick

    Coupla other possibilities: Your spell checker is an
    advanced version, possibly sentient, possibly
    sophisticated, powered by the "The Meddlesome Editor"
    algorithm v 1.0.1 capable of sexing up your
    intelligence. Or perhaps your motor skills and muscle
    memory have bridged the gap and wired straight into
    your creative unconscious and semantic cortex so that
    now you can write simply by setting your fingers in
    motion, without any of that conflicted and intrusive
    conscious thought.

    Lucky fellow. You're in the zone.

    Best, Jeff Davis

                   "You are what you think."
                                  Jeff Davis

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