My only quibble

[fabrisse]

with the obituary for the English language by Gene Weingarten is that he didn't list SpellCheck as a cause of death.

ETA: Just found this in the comments:

jcluma wrote:
Grate artical! At the end of the day this is the best mo-fo breakthrough splanation of English since sliced bread! I lug forward to s'mores from you, bro!

Comments

[katewallace.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed...the 'wonders' of SpellCheck. I used it once and some of the words listed weren't even close to the word I was trying to 'check'.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, I weaned myself from uncritically allowing SpellCheck to make the changes it chose the first time I realized it hadn't caught the word "form" when I meant "from" way back in the dark ages. I run it, but I also proofread. It's amazing how much that can help. *G*

[katewallace.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Mr.'s college roommate could have benefited from it..he turned in an astronomy paper entitled "The Erotic Movement of Asteroids"..and the mistake carried all the way through the paper. Those were the days....I don't think we had Spell-check in the early '70's, but it would have been nice.

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can believe asteroids move erotically. *G* Those minxes.