Fry on spellchecking

“… if you’re in front of a computer screen all day, then the images and icons that you’re manipulating are somehow ever present in your mind. And so you get rather comic moments where if you see a misspelled word in a book when you’re reading a book, you wonder why it hasn’t got a wavy underline from the spellchecker.”

— Stephen Fry (source article)

This is an absolutely true observation that few people manage to put into words so eloquently, and if you follow the link and read the quotes (or if you listened to the original audio version either on Radio 4 or on the BBC’s listen again service), I think you too will be struck not only by his insight, but also by his ability to boil it down to a simple message that most people can connect with.