From the friendly caves of Pixie Hollow.

 

Autocorrect you saved the day

When you first came out to play

But many years later I'm starting to wish

That nobody had ever invented this dish

 

Autocorrect you sounded so posh

All that autocorrecting 

Without spending dosh

But thanks to your silence and ravishing speed

My language is brutalised without heed

 

You turn Leticia to Lettuce

Marriage to Maria

Intention to Invention

And Sec into Sex!

 

I'm always embarrassed

I'm a writer you see

But whoever invented 

YOU loves illiteracy!

 

Your -or is foreign

(My endings are coloured)

You shift, chop, and change,

You're burning my -ise!

 

The trouble begins though

With the horrible thought

That maybe my typing

Is worse than a lot

 

I'd turn you right off

Get away, run, scat!

But it might make me worse

And nobody wants that.

 

My emails lately have been filled with typos, because they're typed with a thumb in the dark on a smartphone.

 

Except, it's not a smartphone. It's a let's-make-everyone-functionally-illiterate phone.

 

Reviewing and re-reading aren't always possible on such devices either. Especially when you factor the behaviour of scanning reading on a screen vs scanning reading on a phone vs the ability to read every single word (which is what happens on a printed page).

 

My encouragement to you is to not let the devices get in your way.

 

If you aren't able to create in a suitable environment, create anyway.

 

People are forgiving.

 

And if they're not, then f^&k them; you don't want to work with people who can't see past their own noses.

 

Meanwhile, I'm reconsidering whether I use my phone at all. LOL

 

xx Leticia "developers should never create things that intervene in writing" Mooney

 

Please let me know what I can do for you.
 
Leticia Mooney is a consultant with decades of experience writing with and for people like you. Her company Brutal Pixie casts the the kind of spells your customers love. It consults to businesses in content strategy, content writing, ghostwriting, content operations, communication strategy, audits, investigations, training and coaching. Leticia is also the mother of an intelligent, engaging, and curious boy, who is named after a character created by J.R.R Tolkien. You can learn more about her at https://biodagar.com/about, and her business at https://brutalpixie.com.
 
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