My Spellchecker Sucks Ass (or maybe I do)

[LadyJeanne]

stubbled
There is no official verb to stubble. You have a bad 'un here. Stubble is a noun.

What about an adjective...his faintly stubbled chin brushed along my...?

 

[carsonshepherd]

Nice Cantdog!

I make up words too Liar. All the time. And I invariably ignore spellcheck, as well as editors who tell me things I don't agree with. But English is my only language.

And stubbled is definitely an adjective!

 

[NoJo]

orgasmatron comes from Woody Allen's 'Sleeper'.

My youngest son is smart as anything. He's also dyslexic.
He often makes inadvertently cute mistakes. This one from last week, in his science class, writing about dental care:

"My dentist was pleased with me because I haven't needed any feelings for two years."

 

[cantdog]

Don't you love spoonerisms?

 

[carsonshepherd]

"My dentist was pleased with me because I haven't needed any feelings for two years."

It's been about that long since I had my last one. I think it was "Sleepy".

 

[Liar]

I salute thy reply, kahndaug. As joe pointed out, orgasmatron is not mine though.

And I can't really see how the others are either, they are just transferred words. I do that all the time. Here are two examples:

penetrator
this is one you coined, congratulations. Nobody will have any problem knowing what it means. Spellcheck is an ass.

Is that one really so unique? One who penetrates, the same way a masturbator is one who masturbates, or a driver is one who drives. I thought that was common sense and that all kinds of verbs could be abused that way.

incubatic
Spell check is right again. I have no idea what this means, either.

The same was I twisted verbs above I here twists nouns into adjectives. Incubatic describes something similar to incubation. Just as orgasmic is something similar to an orgasm.

Am I far off here? You can't do this with the English language? Then o boy I'm in trouble.

#L

 

[TheEarl]

I salute thy reply, kahndaug. As joe pointed out, orgasmatron is not mine though.

And I can't really see how the others are either, they are just transferred words. I do that all the time. Here are two examples:



Am I far off here? You can't do this with the English language? Then o boy I'm in trouble.

#L

Incubatic I don't think you can get away with. Motoric throws me completely. Wassat?

The Earl

 

[Liar]

Incubatic I don't think you can get away with. Motoric throws me completely. Wassat?

The Earl

"Motorics" is my bad. I just took the Swedish medical term for bodily motor functions (motorik) and assumed it translated the same as most other science tems.

What would you use to describe a process or a feeling that was similar to incubation if not as being incubatic? Incubatoristic? "Incubation-like" sounds so...droll.

#L

 

[carsonshepherd]

"Motorics" is my bad. I just took the Swedish medical term for bodily motor functions (motorik) and assumed it translated the same as most other science tems.

What would you use to describe a process or a feeling that was similar to incubation if not as being incubatic? Incubatoristic? "Incubation-like" sounds so...droll.

#L

I don't know. There isn't a word for that. Maybe womb-like.

 

[yui]

"Motorics" is my bad. I just took the Swedish medical term for bodily motor functions (motorik) and assumed it translated the same as most other science tems.

What would you use to describe a process or a feeling that was similar to incubation if not as being incubatic? Incubatoristic? "Incubation-like" sounds so...droll.

#L

I'm not sure of the context, but, maybe, propagation, propagate, generation, genesis, parturition, gestation, etc. ( again, it all depends on the contextual use).

Yui

 

[Lisa Denton]

What about an adjective...his faintly stubbled chin brushed along my...?

................also stubbled pelvic motorolic orgasmatronal area?

 

[Weird Harold]

"Motorics" is my bad. I just took the Swedish medical term for bodily motor functions (motorik) and assumed it translated the same as most other science tems.

What would you use to describe a process or a feeling that was similar to incubation if not as being incubatic? Incubatoristic? "Incubation-like" sounds so...droll.

#L

FWIW, about half of your original list passed MS Word 97's spellcheck.

The ones that failed are:
drawly == "Spoke with a drawl" or just "Drawled"
stubbled == A verb from of a noun -- MS Word's failure
orgasmatron == from Barbarella originally, not Sleeper
pheromoned == another noun in verb form -- MS Word's failure
slobberine == "Slobberer" is not gender specific.
machoism == Perdita explained why it's "Machismo"
penetrator == "Penetrater" doesn't pass either -- MS Word Failure
incubatic == possibly, "Incubatory" but that doesn't pass either.
demolishment == Demolition is the term

motorics == In English "Motor Control Functions," or "motor function" -- We don't have single word for it as far as I know.

skidaddle == "Skedaddle," but MS Word doesn't recognise it either.


MS Word's spellcheck is far from perfect, but it is a) customizable an B) better than no spellcheck at all.

The Grammar Check Function I, personally, find very useful but it can be turned off without turning off the Spell check function.

 

[English Lady]

Liar -you can do whatever the bugger you like with the english language. We England dwelling folks do it all the time. The great thing about language is that it evolves. As long as someone lookng at the word can work out what it means then you're sorted.

I like incubatic and can work out what it's relating too, I guess i'd work out most of them in context.



Sde note -Subjoe my sister is dyslexc and she makes some of the cutest word mx ups ever *L*

(Did you hear about the dyslexic devil worshipper? He sold hs soul to Santa!)

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

probably personal but I rather liked incubatic even though its wrong. It has a nice ring to it.

 

[NoJo]

orgasmatron == from Barbarella originally, not Sleeper

Damn. Now you got me all befuddled in a Fonda fantasy...

 

[snooper]

stubbled
There is no official verb to stubble. You have a bad 'un here. Stubble is a noun. This is one you coined, congratulations. Nobody will have any problem knowing what it means. Spellcheck is an ass.

In the immortal words of a new York taxi driver, "There ain't no noun that can't be voibed"!