Whoever invents paper that throws the red squiggles under misspelled words will make a million bucks.
The observation that our life is run by technology is old hat: it started when the Luddites destroyed their first textile machine and the Amish bowed out of society because of the zipper. And hey, I just had to look that shit up on Wikipedia.
So there's something pretty rewarding when we get to strike back at our crutches, specifically, (for me) when I add a word to Microsoft Word's internal dictionary. For so long it has corrected you, that smug little pop up box... And then, for one shining moment, you get to correct it. Boom, bitch! Who's your daddy now?
forcing microsoft word to acknowledge that anterior is so a word: ***
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