... which has just "corrected" a slight misspelling in the title of J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians in order to re-title the entire thing Waiting for the Birdbrains.
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And it turns 'whitefellas' into 'whiteflies' and 'Indigeneity' into 'indignity'.
I love a sunburnt(Suggested spellings: sunburned, sun burned) country, A land of sweeping(Suggested spellings: sweeped, swept) plains, Of whiteflies and indignity, And political birdbrains...
Of course, the spellcheck of the computer is nothing compared to the spellcheck of the human brain. Today I asked the boss for some liquid paper and she instantly handed me the calculator.
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And it turns 'whitefellas' into 'whiteflies' and 'Indigeneity' into 'indignity'.
Clearly it knows something we don't.
Terror Austral Is
I love a sunburnt (Suggested spellings: sunburned, sun burned) country,
A land of sweeping (Suggested spellings: sweeped, swept) plains,
Of whiteflies and indignity,
And political birdbrains...
Of course, the spellcheck of the computer is nothing compared to the spellcheck of the human brain. Today I asked the boss for some liquid paper and she instantly handed me the calculator.
Just wait til computers can read books for themselves....
Appositely, Kosky is "Kooky".
I call them "smell checkers" cos they never tell you when you have used the wrong worm.
Tim, you shouldn't talk to your boss with your mouth full.
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