Comments on: Spellcheck http://www.marierutkoski.com/journal/12 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:20:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rihab http://www.marierutkoski.com/journal/12/comment-page-1#comment-55 Rihab Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:12:16 +0000 http://www.marierutkoski.com/?p=12#comment-55 I heard a rumor that Joss Whedon named his child Squire, so I contributed to the billion dollar legacy by looking it up on Google. Maybe it isn't as weird to think Spellcheck will rule the world one day, when in present day, we are slaves to knowledge at a quick hit of a button. We probably wouldn't depend as much on reading and juggling four to five books at a time because our vocabulary would easily be replaced with the word that fits. We'd be a dull world that is, nothing to discover when it is easily "right clicked "and even "synonymed". Spell check would have erased any progress or mutation of the English language that makes it so unique. We'd lose a lot of majors depended on that specialty. Wow, not that I think about it, Spell check would have screwed us over worse than a bias in a history book! But, Alas, our names would have saved us, because those can simply be "ignored" and we'd still have the likes of...Don Quioxte's Sancho Panza---the Squire to remember. All thanks to Joss Whedon! I heard a rumor that Joss Whedon named his child Squire, so I contributed to the billion dollar legacy by looking it up on Google. Maybe it isn’t as weird to think Spellcheck will rule the world one day, when in present day, we are slaves to knowledge at a quick hit of a button. We probably wouldn’t depend as much on reading and juggling four to five books at a time because our vocabulary would easily be replaced with the word that fits. We’d be a dull world that is, nothing to discover when it is easily “right clicked “and even “synonymed”. Spell check would have erased any progress or mutation of the English language that makes it so unique. We’d lose a lot of majors depended on that specialty. Wow, not that I think about it, Spell check would have screwed us over worse than a bias in a history book! But, Alas, our names would have saved us, because those can simply be “ignored” and we’d still have the likes of…Don Quioxte’s Sancho Panza—-the Squire to remember.

All thanks to Joss Whedon!

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