Dances With Wolves
"I see you got the pink one."
We'd just settled into a table at a bustling fusion spot near Times Square. He was scrolling aggressively on an iPhone dressed as a flamingo.
"Rose," he corrected me, without looking up. "Rose gold." He was C1 proficient at least, but retained a thick Eastern European accent which imparted an air of grandiose finality to everything he said in English. Everything was a declaration.
Rose gold was all the rage that year. Apple rode the wave. "Nah, that's pink," I th
I am waiting (maybe 2028?) for candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties to surface that are focusing on and suggesting solutions to the issues that the centrist 80% of the US population are facing. We do not need more politicians who are focusing on the issues that the 10% on the far right or the 10% on far left are concerned with.
Sure, I wish the media would do a better job of reporting facts and clearly labeling opinions, but really what the US really needs is for our schools to get back to teaching critical thinking and healthy skepticism/fact checking.
Your ability to intertwine multiple issues- political, international, societal and personal in the same piece sure does make for great reading.
The hardest thing about these Monthlies is overcoming the auto-correct. I’m usually tired by the time I finish them and then I have to comb through 4,000 words to see what was “corrected.” I always miss one (or two or three) and it drives me crazy when I see them the next day. This time, it turned “withdraw” into “withdrawal” there towards the end and I didn’t catch it until this morning.
Other than that, I love writing these.
I think you found a feature that may be worthy of a programmers time. If the autocorrect replacements were stored then flagged when a toggle is turned on then you could easily find the autocorrected text. I do not know what tool you are using that does autocorrect replacements.
I use open office for my text writing most of the time. It does not replace with autocorrect. My writing is not as good as yours.