I've been fighting with my Kindle lately. I know - fighting with inanimate objects is a sign of a disturbed mind. Your point? But the thing is... I didn't start this one.
See, the thing is I love words. More importantly, I love using the exact word - le mot juste. Heck, I'll go so far as to use French to come up with just the right expression. So it drives me bonkers when I type in a carefully considered screed, only to realize that for some unknown reason, my Kindle has autocorrected the word greedheads to the word Greenpeace. No. Greenpeace has absolutely nothing to do with the rising price of insulin, while the greedhead CEOs of pharmaceutical companies should be lined up against the wall and... never mind. Let's just say my rant is less effective than it should have been because some machine is trying to correct my vocabulary.
And ok - I can accept that greedhead might not be in the Kindle dictionary. But in a comment about honey-mustard Pringles, I wrote the phrase "reek of self-regret". Reek - perfectly good word, should be in any proper dictionary. Kindle changed it to "feel of self-regret". No, damn it! I said reek, I meant reek! I can accept that perhaps I have an oversized vocabulary. But why is Kindle trying to dumb my comments down?
I know, I should just turn autocorrect off. But it does come in handy - at times. I just wish it would keep its opinions to itself.
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