Quick Apology For Error
This morning I sent out a post about how AI spellcheck, despite my vigilance, had turned my “Jennens” in the headline to “Jennings” in the Handel’s Messiah Advent posting, for Dec. 7
After I posted, I discovered that the first sentence read “Last night, when I posted this, I corrected it over and over, I tried to change every “Jennens to Jennings.”
It was still backwards?
It should read (and now does:)
“Last night, when I posted this, I corrected it over and over, I tried to change every “Jennings” to Jennens.”
Lesson learned.
It sneaks up on you when your guard is down, and I dare say, has a “mind of its own.”
But so do we—as of this writing, Dec 8, 2022.
Let go of the cellphone which was the worst offender to me for autocorrect, my term being 'hammer-smashing time'....similar to the nudge, 'do this do this do it this way' to which i responded, finally, by getting a landline. Its under fifteen dollars a month, (Ooma brand) my cell was closer to $50 monthly. Folks more than 50 yrs old have lived through so many tech changes (for example -records to 8 tracks to cassete tapes to CD's (large ones then small ones but the small ones didnt work out too much compression?) and finally back to records again, with CDs. too, to just online music (for some). See the pattern? By the end of this we might be using dixie cup telephones again!!! Technology has no opinion, in the truest sense. We must choose what works for us best, live music in a pub or victrola. They are so concerned with good spelling, but it can have so little to do with good thinking.
Despite decades of profound errors and propaganda, I don't recall the legacy media making such a clear apology for important stories. If real journalism is taught anywhere anymore, you should either teach it or - at the very least - guest lecture. You won't because they aren't. What you do is no longer taught.