The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for November 19, 2021

Practice

Did I misspeeled words? Mi?

That’s because Brutus’ PC still runs Windows Millennium Edition!

“Well, when MS Word flags a word as misspelled, I just add it to the dictionary.”

He can do it in his sleep.

It’s a gift, chief.

I believe in alternate spelling.

No wonder why Brutus stays behind the eightball with Veeblefester!

with brutus you really need to spell it out…

It’s just that I’m under your spell chief.

the spell checker must be defective. like texting, mom has that problem with her phone too.

maybe he needs a thesaurus?

“spelling? we don’t need no stinking spelling”

@nosirrom – Funny line!

Spellcheck can only do so much. You still need to re-read every work, since you can write a completely nonsense sentence and spellcheck will say it’s just perfect. I used to write up silly sentences like that when I taught basic computer classes. A born loser will not get that concept or he would be out of character!

It’s the cheap computer program you got us writing words it thinks you want to use and us having to correct them while in a hurry and misspelling those corrected words. Happens a lot…..

couldn’t be as bad as Baldrick’s xmas card spelling in Blackadder Christmas Carol

I have three college degrees, and I have never been able to spell.

I forget abowt it…

Spellcheck may catch the errors, but you still have to fix them. And it drives me crazy that my phone will autocorrect some of my errors for me, but still will allow “teo” (instead of two) and “tou” (instead of you). If it’s a casual text, I’ve given up correcting those, but I do my best to make sure emails and documents are correct.

So you’ll have something to nag him about.

What’s spellcheck Chief?

I’m sure Veeblefester never got a red squiggly line under HIS name. NOT !

Yes, ‘wonderful’ spellcheck. I’ve put a word in [only 1 letter wrong or missing] and it will give a short list – that doesn’t look like my word. So I google it instead – Much more reliable. The automatic is even worse, changing an already posted word to something else – usually the word I was trying to avoid, I always hope I catch those unwanted changes.

New math, New spelling.

It’s written in the new “teen” lingo chief. cul – brb -

“I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.” Mark Twain

It ain’t easy chiefy!

Spell check causes the vast majority of my misspellings.