Who needs to remember anything in the world of autocorrect and Google Maps?
My computer has stopped doing spellcheck. No more wriggly red lines beneath my errors. No more helpful suggestions as to what I probably mean. I’ve tried to reactivate the feature, but “the computer says no”.The spellcheck feature has held my hand for years, but now has suddenly abandoned me. I’m forced to copy and paste my text into a spellcheck website. At this point, nearly the whole thing becomes underlined in red. The plural of tomato, for instance, has an “e” it.
In order to avoid such mistakes, you’d look up the word before you typed it, trying to consign it to memory. This helped with particularly tricky words like “occasion”, or “separate”, or “principle/principal”, and we’d learn strange mnemonics such as “there’s always ‘a rat’ in separate”, or “your principal is your pal”, while hoping that some genius would one day create a mnemonic for spelling “mnemonic”.
Of course, computer assisted spelling is only the beginning of what you could call The Great Deskilling.These days, I’m no longer required to stretch my memory. When I say to Jocasta, “You know, that actress, the one I love, the one inOld days: Summon the librarians! Send them down into the vaults! Rustle, rustle. Give me a moment. That’s right: Julianne Moore. There was pleasure in firing up the synapses and coaxing the name from its hidey-hole.
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