Dear Spell-Check,

Is there any shot you could get smarter? Not too smart–I don’t want you checking my logic, or pitching me jokes–but just a bit less dimly literal-minded.

Remember Watson? The AI program that beat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy? Now, they’ve reconfigured it to help in the fight against cancer. You, on the other hand, think that I meant to write the word “fir.” Now, “fir” is–technically–correct: that’s how you spell that word. But it’s March, so I’m not talking about Christmas trees, and I live in the sub-tropics, so I’m not talking about a walk in the forest I took. You know I meant “for.”

I’m not mad, Spell-Check; I’m disappointed. You can do better.

Sincerley,

Throughs one teh Dade