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Oh my heavens it STILL was backwards, but I just fixed it. How did I write "Jennens to Jennings," in a post about changing it the other way? There's more to this than we understand.

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I was dismayed recently when making a Substack comment using Google Chrome and it put a red squiggly line underneath: unvaccinated.

The spelling they suggest: vaccinated.

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wow.

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Interesting. I have had the word “not” disappear almost every time I type it for a number of years. I have also had negative prefixes either highlighted as you have or automisscorrected with the prefix removed. Reading your posting, I am suspicious of this being accidental.

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Odd. Here's a thought, if not's not working, try knot.....

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Might have to give that a try.

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I've noticed that, too. the negative prefixes thing is really annoying. I honestly have been upset with myself when I've sent something and the word "not" was left out changing the meaning entirely, but I thought it was my own carelessness. Except it has happened so often, and this makes me start to wonder.

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At first, i too that I was leaving it out. Then I started noticing that the length of what I was typing changed as I was typing. Thinking that that was odd, I reread what I typed, found that “not” was missing and retyped it. This has happened without her words too but I have actually seen “not” disappear. It just so happened to be near by curser as I paused for a drink, which I partook while looking at the screen and saw it disappear. Yet, I am still not believed.

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I call it a hacksxxxxine.

Big Harma.

Harmacide.

Harmaceuticals.

I call it an attack on the very essence of Womanity, our d n a

Other words

Scamdemic.

Viruganda lockstep narrative

Script.

San Francisco killafornia.

The needle capital....

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Sometimes I when I think about, for fun will write something like vaccine-free, as opposed to your forbidden 😎 word. We need to get creative and confuse the POS!

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I get zero red. No warning.

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Yes. I use unv@ccinated now. It seems to have no problem with that!

Substack spellcheck doesn't like pureblood either. It's happy with purebl00d though. Maybe it needs a dictionary!!

😂

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They should turn off the whole Harmacide and leave us be with our bad spelling And good smelling

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I hope the spellcheck programmers aren’t working on self driving car technology.

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Judging by all the self drive accidents I'd have to guess YES. (The same types anyway)

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Perfect, Celia, wish I would have wandered upon it: A.I. = Artificial Ignorance.

As A.I.D.S. = Acquired Intelligence Deficiency Stupidity.

Keep safe and free.

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There are simple and obvious remedies for this. During set-up with a new device, the user is asked if they know how to spell. If so, they are offered the option of cancelling automatic spell-check. What happens now is that one has to spend half an hr on the new device looking for the box to tick or untick. There are other matters which need to be settled right from the start, such as whether the user has perfect or limited vision. Whether the user will ever want to play computer games. Whether the user is interested mainly in text rather than visual.

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I’ve gone that route. Went through and found all the places I needed to check and uncheck to disable all these auto functions. I want to know when my machine is doing. I do not want it sending out anything from me that I did not do one my own. I have been successful. Then there is an update and you have to do it all over again, except things are not in the same location. Takes forever and lasts far less a length of time.

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I have experienced this too. I imagine we all have. Satanic forces at play. I Trust anyway that God reigns and we need not fear. I have often found similar situations infuriating though and completely feel better knowing I am not alone in noticing the madness we wade through, day in, day out. Love your posts, Celia. Feels like I have company during lonely times.

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Thank you Bean. And I feel the same about all of you.

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You are right on. I have been fighting to spell Corporatocracy without a red underlining for years. At least we know what pushes their buttons. New keys show up everywhere once we look.

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Will we ever dump technology?

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Can’t now, or we better get around to doing soon. I have to deal with too many QR code access controlled venues and events to believe that unless one already has the means to live like they do in the movie THE VILLAGE, we’d soon starve with out this horrible tech.

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KJV Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Someday, it is all going to quit and this is how frustrated we'll be.

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Very subtle, but something real I noticed---My smart phone quit automatically capitalizing Trump after the election in 2020 but has now started doing so again.

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In a way the algo was supporting the point of your title! Who ever heard of Jennens? The AI certainly didn't know him.

The algos are running wild lately. WordPress has started feeding me "starter phrases" when I open a new blogpost. Today's starter is "Do you ever see wild animals?"

Previously "What are your two favorite things to wear?" "How do you feel about eating meat?"

"Are you more of a morning or night person?"

All of them have some connection with topics I've written about, which is creepy.

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Might be a good idea to disable the spell check and utilize our own brain cells more. If it doesn’t make a difference, we’ll know how advanced the problem is.

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Turned it off as soon as I get a new device or any any new app with this function. Does not matter. It changes anyway. Same with predictive misspell. I hate, it turn it off, yet there it is still working, or not, as if I left it turned on.

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Over Here, I regard algorithms in the same way as sat navs: for guidance only!

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Your hypothesis *is* confirmable by somebody familiar with the source code.

Maybe a spell check developer (or dictionary maintainer) reads your substack and can weigh in.

A tangential side story: I sometimes follow professional chess. A year or so ago, a top-level player (Wesley So) was being interviewed online after a big victory. He said he wanted , first and foremost, to "thank the Lord". One of the commentators was horrified. "WHAT did he just say?" Indoctrination to Godlessness and anti-God bigotry abounds.

Anyway, God bless you Celia.

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Yup, I hear you Celia

.the spell check is a viscious beast.

Vicious.

Vishoush.

How do you even spell that ?

Vishoush?

I spell it

H a r m a c I d e

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I have had this problem going as far back as the late 90s using whatever window and apple software was then available. I found that whenever I tried to type my name, “Todd” it would “corrected” to “Tit”. Ever faucing time. While that no longer happens, I can not say things have improved . I too spend a lot of time retyping the same word over and over again to correct the automisspell function only to see it changed back between the time I hit send/post and it arrives or is posted. Well, not exactly true as of about a year and a half ago, I don’t usually worry about it anymore. It will post what it posts. When/if someone likes a comment or posting I have made, I almost always find errors. Some may be mine own. Many, I know are not. When I see them I correct them then. The changes seem to “stick” when correcting something that has already been posted.

Having had this happen far more often these past 3 years than before, I am no longer critical or disappointed when I see obvious errors in other’s work. I figure that they just are having the same battle with automisscorrect that I am. Same with my student’s work. How can I fault them when I know the problem exists and is growing worse?

The one thing that bothers me is that despite 25 years of battling this, so very few a knowledge that it happens....at all. I’m just being lazy. “You can’t spell.” “You can’t type.” Well , that last one is true, which just means that I type slower and correct my mistakes when they occur if I see them at the time, which I most often do. Only to see my word processing program change it.

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When I must make an inquiry or resolve an issue with any account with a major corporation, after going through various menus and wait times and when a voice comes through, I regularly ask, “Are you a person?”

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