"I can't believe how much I use my spell check." - Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

It's terrible, yet true. I could not win a spelling competition to save my life. (My cat is sniffing my arm rather intensely, which is disturbing...) Well, no one said you had to be able to spell to be able to write. My oldest sister was always the spelling bee champ.

It's frustrating though, opening Word all the time to check the spelling of a word while I'm talking to someone online. That, I suppose, is more just my vanity than anything, though. Makes me feel stupid in front of my friends, but they probably don't really care. So I guess I shouldn't bother.

But, really, spell check still has its flaws. For example, a word may be spelled correctly, but it's the wrong word. Also, for some reason, it doesn't accept some words as real. Here's something that surprised me: Lex Luthor, in my Word program, is not recognized. Neither name. As I typed away last night about Clark and Lex, Lex's name was underlined in red. I tried Luthor; same thing happened. Superman was fine, though. So was Batman. I tried Brainiac for the hack of it, and that was challenged as well, but I expected that. But Lex Luthor? Superman's arch-nemesis? Come on! Then it was completely sexist, I thought, that it wouldn't accept Catwoman, either. Hello! Major love interest of Batman isn't accepted either? So, I suppose, Microsoft Word spell check is above criminals. Bah! The LJ spell check accepts Lex, but doesn't accept Lex's. Luthor's a no-go, too. Same with Catwoman. What is this? *shakes head* Awful.

Catching a typo in a book can be jolting. I've read that the modern author has to be very careful with the manuscript, because if it is accepted, there wil most likely be little time given to actually going over the manuscript. This article said that is was because publishers publish so much nowadays, they can't devote the time they used to be able to. Well, more publishing is good, I suppose, but now writers just have to take more care of the submitted manuscript.

I respect Lois Lane. She's a career woman, and can hold her own much of the time, even if Superman does need to rescue her more often than not. Hey, at least she's doing her job, brave to face the dangers, even if she is scared. Lois & Clark is such fun. It's cheesy often, and extremely bizarre at times, but it's FUN. I think that's very important. It's easier to watch than Smallville because of it. Smallville is all modern, what with its pop music and its mutant of the week and its affairs and murder attempts and teenage angst and confusion. Oh, the fact that Jor-El wants Kal-El to rule the earth... Don't even get me started on that. And that Lana's some descendant of a witch or whatever? I stopped watching around then. The dream episode, actually. Lex's dream. But, I'm attempting it again. Maybe I'll be more receptive the second time around.

On a side note, Smallville isn't accepted either. Ditto with the first part of Kal-El and Jor-El each. What about Gotham City? That's fine. So is Metropolis. Ah, well. I'm not the one making the dictionaries for these things. Nightwing? No. Superboy? No. Supergirl? NO. Bah.

Hmm... I don't suppose there's red kryptonite around, huh? (Doesn't like kryptonite!! AH!) I... don't care about much at the moment.