Friday, November 11, 2011

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Homonyms are NOT picked up in this particular grammar/spell check; is there one that will pick it up? I wish I knew of one. Oh that’s right; it’s called a ‘human editor’, ha!
Even words that you think to use appropriately like I did last night with vulnerable and it corrected my mistake and installed the word, venerable, it had no idea what I was trying to say and were not corrected in my blog, and I used to be such a great speller! All it takes is one letter to make it take over…
Did you all know that vulnerable means to be: susceptible, weak, defenseless, helpless, open to, exposed, in danger, at risk, or in a weak position?
Sure you did, and I did too!
But for some strange reason last night I spelled it incorrectly and when spell check got a hold of it they replaced it with, ‘venerable’, which I found out meant something totally not correct for what I wanted in my sentence! In actuality is means respected, august, esteemed, honored, admired, a very nice meaning but not the one I wanted for what I was trying to say, so please forgive?
As we all know or so I have been told when you ‘tweet’ or ‘text’ (since I do not tweet or text) this can occur too…why Ellen DeGeneres has had a segment on her TV show all about the stupid things that have been written by mistake…and some are unbelievably incredible to think about, what was the grammar/spell check thinking, and maybe there is a person inside doing this all to be funny, hmm?

All I do know that today was the date that only happens once, 11-11-11, although, last year we had 10-10-10, and the years before nope that didn’t work when we had single digits we need to put an ‘0’ before it then it was 9-9-09, see no can do, but 12-12-12 will work and yep, then there will be no more until… I have no idea, till when? Perhaps, you do, but my head is spinning… so I’ll stop if you do, okay?

More importantly today was Veterans Day, which is amazing to me for one great reason besides the obvious one; do you know what I am getting at?
YES! It is one of the few that has NOT had its actual date of being on November eleventh changed to meet our desires to have three day weekends! And for that I say hooray!
And to all our Veterans past and present I will say two words that we all should say daily, really, THANK YOU!

On that upbeat ending to my bits and pieces of my strange way of thinking… and of knowing when you’ve said enough… allow me to be the first to wish you all to kindly count all your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS cold down here in ‘Paradise’ for just last night, today, tonight and tomorrow, but warmth will be back from this frosty brrr time of fifties, sixties, seventies… and yes, the eighties will be returning by SUNDAY!

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