Is spellcheck really your friend?

[mamculuna]

Great lines from student papers--although I've warned them about this, they still don't think critically about the changes MS Word suggests. And yet maybe spellcheck can think more than we guess:

"Gregor wakes in the mourning to find he's become a beetle"

"The narrator goes to a distract of shops in search of Zaabalawi"

Comments

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I know what weird things I do myself with an FL dictionary, and teaching ESL has really been fun, but that's at least understandable. Sad to say, these are native speakers. Don't know about the taxi, but it's certainly driving me in that direction...