... 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.
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'.
ReplyDeleteClearly it knows something we don't.
ReplyDeleteTerror Austral Is
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteJust wait til computers can read books for themselves....
ReplyDeleteAppositely, Kosky is "Kooky".
ReplyDeleteI 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.