The Spellcheckers

Down the Rabbit hole we go.

Here's an instant observation: 

Have you noticed that your spell checker software has not been working right lately? 

Well, I have. 

Try it sometime. Intentionally misspell a word, an obvious word, something basic like "aple". You'd think "apple" would be a suggestion, but no, instead you'll get something like "afel", "amel", "eplle". 

It very well could be geographically targeted, or maybe it only happens certain times of the day, as in not everyone sees it, or not all the time, but that's what I've noticed lately in my neck of the woods.

This development could be both good and bad. 

Good in the sense that smart people who were otherwise being lazy relying on the built in spellchecker systems, will notice the error and correct the problem on their own without requiring external assistance. Which means opening up a real dictionary, preferably one you can actually see and touch and pick up and hold in your real hands, and commit the word and its definition to memory, like we used to do before the internet made some of us into lazy thinkers.

Bad in the sense that less intelligent people will NOT learn from their mistakes and will instead regurgitate the nonsense. Meaning that if they misspell a word and the spellchecker makes a mistake and gives them the wrong answer, over time they may internalize the wrong answer, and fail to learn how to spell the word without the use of the spellchecker telling them what it means.

Based on the evidence given above, it would be fair to ask the spell checker: "Have you cast any spells lately?" 

You know, like Harry Potter. 

Like what exactly does a hairy potter look like? Does it look like a hairy spider in a pot? Or does it look like a boy named Harry in a pot? Like a witches cauldron, with the bodies and brains of humans, steeping and stewing, while the spell checkers cast spells in it.

What a riddle that is.