Digital BW, The Print

On Sep 28, 2004, at 6:37 AM, Andre wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "lulalake_1999"
>  > > Jon
>  >
>  > Proffreading? With todays spellcheckers it's totally unneccessary!
>  >
>  > Cheers
>  >
>  > Jules
>
>  LOL...
>
>

It's an amazing tool, and one that often surprises me in my early 
senility.  Never a flawless speller, I frequently have to turn to the 
dictionary to find out how I can be misspelling some familiar word I 
thought I knew. It also alerts me to typos. (Now, see, I would have 
thought "typoes" would have been more correct; but it likes "typos".)   
It may be a final bastion of safeguarding at least one aspect of 
literacy which contemporary usage seems bent on destroying, although it 
isn't smart enough to catch wrong usage: "its" , "it's"; "to", 
"too","two"; "their", "there", and "they're" are all spelled correctly, 
but frequently misused to the temorary misdirection of meaning.  One 
has to realize what the writer meant to say.

James