In my sermon this week I mentioned the presidential election. As I typed up the manuscript I wondered, at what point will the spell check tools in our word processors and web browsers recognize the names “Barack” and “Obama” and stop telling us these are misspellings? Do you think the next generations of Word, Firefox, etc. will automatically have those names in their dictionaries?
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Let me make raise the politically incorrect dilema: For years, “Osama” was more prevalent in our vocabulary than “Obama.” Will both be accepted in our dictionary? Will one be considered a misspelling and “automatically corrected” to the other? I can see it now, conservative versions of word processors and web browsers implicitly forwarding their agendas through the spell check tool…
Comment by Eddy E — November 11, 2008 @ 9:29 pm