Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
This isn't literary, this is me bitching about spellcheck again.
From SPACE.com:
"Some pessimists predicted the Milky Way was doomed to a grizzly death by dismemberment if enough of these galaxies collide with it."
Those are not intergalactic BEARS. Those are small GALAXIES, so it should be a "grisly death". So very bothersome!
And yes I'm awake early; I get to work a normal day today.
I'm sorry, the image of the Milky Way being ripped apart by huge bears is made of awesome.
Maybe Ursa major is going to rip apart the galaxy?
There needs to be contextcheck, in addition to spellcheck. Because even though "grizzly" was the wrong word, it *was* spelled correctly, so spellcheck just went blithely on without flagging it.
Contextcheck would be an excellent Turing test.
Ursa major with a little back up from Ursa minor?
There needs to be contextcheck, in addition to spellcheck.
A contextcheck would be FABULOUS, and would have totally bitchslapped the spellcheck, muttering, "Wanker."
I think the new Word has something like it now -- some words show up with a blue line underneath them, and they're usage related. Like "bare" instead of "bear," etc. But it still gets it wrong about 85% of the time, just like the grammar check.
omg, Connie, that's brilliantly awful. Hah!
If you write 1000 words and Neil Gaiman writes 1000 words, Neil Gaiman has written more than you.
Neil Gaiman's next novel is expected to win the Nebula, the Hugo, and the Heisman Trophy.