Working on a paper earlier today, I let this sentence slide: “Many have excoriated these savings as huge cuts, but the truth is that both bills take only a small step toward reining in the unbridled entitlement spending that threatens America’s future prosperity.”
What I was thinking was “Many have excoriated legislators for these huge cuts” but what came out, as above, was something rather different and not so coherent. But now it’s fixed: “criticized.”
Microsoft Word is clearly having an impact on my ability to spell properly. Seriously, why make the effort when that useful red line will keep everything proper? I wonder that my weblog posts, here and elsewhere, aren’t riddled with errors. They probably are, and I just don’t notice it.
And here’s another thing: Newer versions of Word are quite aggressive with the “autocorrect” feature. Autocorrect is useful for, say, dual capitalization, e.g., “SHe said hello.” But it kills me when I totally garble a word and Word corrects it to something other than what I meant instead of just underlining it in red.
An example? Well, I don’t have any just right now. There can’t be any other explanation, however, for all the dumb mistakes in my evidence outline, among other recent writings. Everything is spelled properly, but the words are all wrong. For that, I blame Word.
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