15 May 2007 - thinking checker

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They Are Smarter Than You

The spelling checker is a device which promotes a mere typo to a grammatical error. We’ve had those for a while. Now it is time for the next step, the thinking checker that promotes a grammatical error to the semantic level.

original: I lurrrve you.
spell checked: I larva you.
final correction: I say that you are an immature insect.

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