Thursday, August 20, 2009

Spellchecked

I am doing the spellcheck on a story, and these are the words I've clicked "ignore" on. I wonder what clues they give as to the nature of the story:

uncatered
minifridge
Lavalife
colours
Coke
FedEx'd
admins
midconversation
dj
nothinger
orthodics
Prius
maritalness
bellish
clearish
one-night-standish
lingerie'd
unmuscled
fleshshaping
unerotic
clinkless

In some ways, that's pretty much the whole story in miniature, in slang and neologisms. Weird.

She wears her overcoat for the coming of the nuclear winter
RR

4 comments:

AMT said...

that is one racy-sounding story!

except for orthodics.

Rosalynn said...

Yes, I agree with AMT -- and I really, really want to read it.

frede said...

What? Orthotics are awesome. MIne have changed my life: reduced back and foot pain. Generally increased footloose-ness. I will gladly read any orthotics-centred story you may have!

Rebecca Rosenblum said...

Ah, so it's orthotics with a "t" is it? That explains spellcheckers hesitation.

The piece overall is not orthotics-centred, and *is* in fact rather racy. At least, for me (thus with the minifridge and the Prius).