Why doesn’t my spellchecker teach me to spell?
I’ve never been able to spell. Never. In fact, my goal isn’t often to spell the word correctly — I know that will never happen in some cases — but rather, get it close enough that the spellchecker can figure out what I’m trying to spell. And sadly, sometimes I can’t even do that.
Case in point, I can’t even tell you that I find spellcheckers a huge conveanance. In the online world, they’re my saving grace. The problem is when you don’t have access to spellchecker. I.e. when you’re in the Real World, writing something on a white board. In the Real World, you have to pull some half-ass Porky Pig like maneuver starting to write down one word and after flailing, switch to an easier word to spell.
Hence the need to actually learn how to spell. Sure, you can study wordlists, etc., but the ideal wordlist would be just the words I can’t spell. And who knows what words I can’t spell? The spellchecker. A better spellchecker would keep track of the word I mispell frequently, removing things like one-offs from typos, and either show me a list of them or drill me on them. Then, someday, I might one day be able to spell convenience on my own.
