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[rymenhild]

While working on the current research paper, I have added the following words to my computer spellchecker:

sistrum
metacritical
literalized
unanswerability
ETA: postlapsarian
surtextual
subtextual
Christological

I am impressed that the spellchecker knew the word apotheosized.

Comments

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

...that's one damned smart spell-check.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Or anyway, it is now!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I campaign for the higher education of spellcheckers everywhere.

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

Mine's starting to learn Latin and Old French...

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I just turn the spellchecker off when writing Old French papers. Autocorrect, too. I've had the computer correct "ceus" to "cues" one too many times.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Whereas my autocorrect is so attuned to class-notes shortcuts that it can have ridiculous results the few times those abbreviations are used for other purposes (the chief annoyance may be, anytime I mistype 'do' as 'dp', I end up with 'due process' instead. But it's still easier to put up with this than to write out 'due process' every time it comes up...