Why so spell checkers suck?

Hi there
Dictionaries and spell checkers are even now appearing for "Mobile phone Texte-ese". What chance for real lovers of proper language skills and decent communication when even people sitting next to each other in a bar are texting away.

I reckon in 10 years time verbal communication will probably be dead and all communication will be done by mobile phone.

The ear as a human organ will shrink to the size of just allowing one of those "white bud earphones" you see all over the place -- another indication that the younger generation will do ANYTHING to avoid actually speaking directly to another human being.

I often see family groups in a restaurant not actually talking to each other but all of them texting away on their wretched mobile phones ---- surely a restaurant is one place these devices should be SWITCHED OFF in.

Howver if you are an engineer the old magic formula f = 2 pi omega l*c where f is approx 2.2 Ghz, l = inductance and c the capacitance will block out most mobile phone signals for around 50 metres if you can make your white noise generator push out about 1 mw at 2.2 or 2.4 GHZ .

Typical mobile phone signals are in Microwatts so a 1 mw signal will drown out any mobile phone signal in the area you are using your white noise generator from.

Often I take the Eurostar on a Friday from Paris to London and after a busy week the last thing I'm sure most passengers need are overstressed Americans yabbering business all the way from Paris to London at the top of thir voices with TOTAL disregard for the other passengers of their carriage.

I'm not anti the use modern communication devices but these should be used properly respecting the other PAYING PASSENGERS rights to peace and quiet.

If I have to use mine I go and use it in the corridor or in the bar car -- not screeching at the table where my fellow passengers would have to put up with it.


Perhaps respect for other people is lacking these days -- not deliberately I'm sure -- but "The Ipod generation" seems to have cut itself of from the rest of the planet totally immersing themselves into their music and ignoring everything around them - even spreading to a lot of workplaces too now unfortunately.

Cheers

jimbo.

noobvious said:

I don't know if this was intentional , to illustrate the point of the OP , or not, but I couldn't help but notice this.....


Seems like "do" would be a better fit than "so", wouldn't it?

Oops, my typing skills need improvement as well as my attention to proof reading. LOL.

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Ok = okay.