Monday, February 04, 2013

Spell Check owes me a Geisha.

I have a new phone, which means that, before I break it in by emending the dictionary, it's time to have some fun with spell check.

This phone is particularly nice because it gives me the too five words it thinks I mean IronIcallþ.

oops. that last letter is the result of by first addition to the dictionAry.

it helps that the keyboard is too small for my thumbs and highly sensitive to suggestions.

BMWs add always fun. My name is Keisha. My husband's BMW Oz Kent. My cats are need Miss'dib, Rosamond, Chester, and Logab.c.

B.c. spell check usually wants to call me Jesus. Keisha isn't really an improvement.

at least it did.tt nOw me a geisha.

sounds like it owes me a geisha.

Has spell check ever owed 7you*  a geisha? it sure owes me one.

If I took every suggestion spell check ever made, many older things, such as Accessories, would be,one incomprehensible.

For example:
Flames thou art and Caddie; and shoot ne
Wharf thon art promis.Ð:  Yeti so I fest thai .stieß;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness

This, more or less, quite ShAkespeare, so saidth my phone. And the phone is always totugÞ.

Going back in time skidjyou, let isotropy some Chaucer:
Wha.d. she him saw, she fan for spree anion
Hit Trey face a-twixe hit armed Hyde,
For which this Pandered is so WI be-goon,
That in the house he nights unmerge abuse,
As he that outer felt on every side.
For if Crissues gaffe west completed sore,
Tho fan she plume a thousand tunes more.

From here we move further back, into Old English, which, contrary to popular belief, is NOT equivalent to the 1611 King James Bible.

Per exemplI'm, the Lit's's Prayer begins thinly:
Fader ire, sea sea earth on grooming,
halifax both thin mama.

Which is really just horrible. Spell check should probably burn in Hell for that one.

It's not any better at Latin:
Er air elia: Fun pastis, doctor:
Payer, sanctification moment thu.. Adventism regnum ruin. Panel nostrum altruistic day bonus Jodie. Er finite bonus Oscars boats, dividend er ipso sonorous omni seventies bonus. Er be nos. indices in gestational.

For which I decree that the inventors of spell check should spend a thousand years in Purgatory copying every major dictionary out by hand.

Once I've added all my own words of choice to the dictionary, this will become much less fun. Fortunately for the rest of the world at large.