Your spell check is lying to you.
In the before times, you know before 2022, spell check used to be of the actual world. A list that was carefully maintained by the company that ran the spell check program. Programs like the spell check embedded in Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
Well I say used to be of the actual world.
Now it is a computer program that has been trained using AI in pattern recognition. The patterns that they recognize is the correctly spelled world. And the myriad ways that a word can be misspelled. And there are so many ways a word can be misspelled.
Think they’re, their, and there. They’re is a contraction of they are. Their indicates ownership. There indicates place.
Which usage is correct? The spellchecker now uses pattern recognition to recognize if the usage of that particular word is the correct one.
Are you with me so far?
But when enough people misspell and misuse a word or a phrase enough time the program now lets the wrong word and the wrong usage to be accepted as truth.
Where it gets tricky is that the sentence “They’re over there” meaning they are over there can confuse the program. What someone meant to mean is place (there) over place (there). Which doesn’t make sense. Or the third person meant to mean Their (possessive) over there (place).
And the computer program which is not an actual person and therefore cannot think, allows it.
Because enough people have made that mistake. This tricks the program to thinking it is correct when it could not be further from the truth.
This is, and I can’t stress this enough, dumbing us down tremendously.
Kind of like evil auto-correct.
This is also a self perpetuating problem. People can’t spell, can’t write, and fuck it up either way and depend on a machine that is not a person to sort it out for them. And so on and so on and so on.
Until we are left scratching letters into the dirt again.
A duck is never a duck when you mean fuck.
The AI is patting us on the back and saying “their, their, their.”
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