Curse Of The Spell Checker
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Well, I had this essay I wrote last week, and I had to reference a lot of quotations from the books we read in the class. I didn’t like the books (for the most part), I didn’t like the prompt for the essay, and I didn’t particularly like the essay either (or MLA styles). But when I got it back today, I was kind of surprised at the mistakes I made.
Whenever I reference the author “Metalious”, it came out “Metalloids”. Whenever I referenced “Nabokov”, it came out “Taboo”. I remember specifically going out of my way not to correct those words when I spell checked the essay, but somehow it did it automatically. For all of them.
Spell-checkers get me again.
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