The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #170115 Message #4113981
Posted By: robomatic
21-Jul-21 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Dogs in cars in hot weather
Subject: RE: BS: Dogs in cars in hot weather
Steve, you are NOT wrong until I think you're wrong. As for spelling, the fact that you care makes you right. My Mom used to correct my spelling in the letters I sent home. I rarely use splelcheck. But, when one reads the writing of our ancestors, both Colonial and Empire, one finds that they did not fuss at creatively sounding out the words to suit their purpose. And then you've got folks like Shakespeare who I believe invented whole words. The average American feels entitled (lazy) and so I find that sometimes splelcheck is enabled and active without my even asking it. Which is why when I was preparing a document using the term "cathodic protection" it came out "catholic protection". Since my working superior was capital 'C' Catholic I had to assure him that the error was strictly secular. But it made me careful with the autonomous nature of the coming digital world. Don't want our killer robots to go too far off topic, like I just did.