When spell checkers are *not* your friend

[donutsweeper]

Dear Mr. Spellchecker,

Gibbs talking about being threatened by an ex-wife with cast iron is a smidge different than being threatened with castration.  The latter probably would have made him a bit more upset.  Quit trying to change it in my story.

Comments

[awanderingbard]

*gigglesnort* That's one of those wonderful 'does the computer know what I'm writing about?' moments. Because I bet at least one of them threatened him with castration.

It's like when I used to rpg and there was a character named Kenadie. Every time I typed the name, the Spellchecker would politely ask if I meant 'gonads'. That always amused me. :-)

[donutsweeper]

actually- you're probably right, I'm sure the subject came up once or twice.

How did it get gonads from Kenadie? Sometimes spell checkers amaze me.

Usually, when I am spelling something wrong it can't come up with anything close to the word I meant to spell. *sigh*

[awanderingbard]

How did it get gonads from Kenadie?

Maybe the 'nad' part? Who knows? I think they panic when they don't know what the word is and just throw something random at you. In Firefox, it wonders if I mean Grenadier, which...is sort of closer? Maybe? If you squint?

Usually, when I am spelling something wrong it can't come up with anything close to the word I meant to spell. *sigh*

I know! That old elementary school trick of sounding it out doesn't work with Spellcheckers. I also find it amusing that Spellchecker is not in the spellchecker. :-)

[donutsweeper]

half the time I wind up using the thesaurus, trying to look up a similar word to find the word I wanted. Except after a few minutes I have forgotten the word I wanted in the first place

[kaylashay]

Castrating Gibbs!!!??

Tony would be very, very upset...

*hee hee*

[donutsweeper]

oh boy would he be, Gibbs too I'm sure!

[the_dark_side]

[donutsweeper]

*nods* good point. You are very wise in these matters

[the_dark_side]

[donutsweeper]

you should consider yourself proud

[chatona]

*dies*

[donutsweeper]

*revives* sorry about that!

[aeron_lanart]

Which is the reason why I customise mine, otherwise it has a field day with the likes of Siannon, Methos and Ianto (Methos was usually suggested to be Method or Myths). As I scan for those wiggly red lines when I'm spell checking, it helps if the stuff I've spelled correctly is actually recognised.

All this talk of cast iron, gonads and castration is rather worrying in a way...

[donutsweeper]

lol- I suppose it could be taken the wrong way.

I only realized I *could* customize it a bit ago. So I added fandom and fandoms and a few others, but I'm afraid to add too many things and risk getting it confused that way. I dislike the red squiggly line. And the green one when it thinks your grammar is wrong.