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"spellcheckers". on by default in web browsers since some year ago, and now even in notepad.exe.

one problem is that it doesnt support several languages. so, obviously, i wrote this in english while my operating system is swedish. but even for swedish text it does stupid things. for some reason, it capitalizes seemingly random words when i write. you can disable it, but it comes back every time you re-open the program.

just like in school, spellcheckers are only there to make you lose your confidence while writing. theyre not actually supposed to "improve" anything.

i feel sorry for all people who arent tech-savvy and dont know how to disable them. they either just write in the tongue their operating system is in, or get used to all the underlining (which makes the text hard to read).

for awhile, it used to be popular with "ms word spelling", where for many amateurish copywriters, they just ran the spellchecker in microsoft word and applied all wanted changes. turned humouristic.

the most stupid thing about them, is, in swedish, it doesnt say the correct form of de/dem. that stopped being spoken in the 1800s. the only error you get is "if you write 'dom' it sounds like slang, please correct". when i went to university, i got fail on ALL my 4 assignments because of this simple error (so i was kicked off the course after the first term). now i just write "de", which is 30% error instead of 30-60%.

it was a long time ago, and many people werent even born then. but there used to be several page-writing programs. but as more people do know, microsofts antics of taking over the tech world removed innovation in spelling correction.

or as their detractors say "embrace, extend, extinguish". flash, a software for making real-time created graphics on webpages, stopped being supported some years ago, or the current owner just stopped updating it.

and the first company to buy up flash? microsoft, of course. they made it so it only worked in their web browser. this was changed some years later though.

as for spell-checking, now AI can do it. i tried chatGPT on a enjambed text, and it even added a dash when the language needed it! so thats the future.

theres also the dedicated software writely. were lots of ads about it some year ago. again, i dont use that. it seemed to mostly just delete text youd written, saying "dont be so jibbery jabbery", and then saying the defeatist "be creative!". its supposed to integrate with webbrowsers though, so you dont have copy+paste it back and forth whenever writing whatever.