PDA: Potentially Divisive Accoutrement

Technology.Psychology.Neurology.

Disclaimer: This is only a dramatization

Dear Verizon,

I don't know who is responsible for this failing,
but my new Blackberry Curve Smart Phone Spell Check
does not recognize the term "blog."

Come!..... On!!







I absolutely adore my new Blackberry Curve Smart Phone
(although that's a dumb name, I am embellishing on it
only to qualify the complaint I am submitting -



I would prefer the more imaginatively-freeing
esoterically-enhancing

Blackberry
Arc or Arch or Archetype

head-over-heels over the lowly-pedestrian
somewhat-feminine-sounding...

Curve ( : - ")

I still do adore it.... ( : - ))

so much so that though (even before having a PDA of my own) -

whisper: ( : - *)

I had heard people use the derogatory terms Crack and Barf
before berry to describe potentially insidious elements of
addictive or abusive or illin' effects of usage of such device,

I was so smitten with my easily- misunderstood yummynummy
that almost immediately I began to refer to it and started telling
my other friends about my new "BFF" Blackberry.

I even went so far as to make playful remarks about being in bed
"fingering" my BFF early in the morning in a comment composed
to respond to a "blog" of a friend of mine.

So, here's the horror: I press submit and

the spell check stops on "blog"

and in the little lavender (perfect pastel touch)
pop-up square gives these options:

bloc blot blow log.... clog bog blob and slog....

I guess the "smart" part only refers to the phone part
of what should be an across-the-key-board intelligent device.

A more appropriate consumer trial marketing study
might have included Blackberry "Learning Curve" Smart Phone
as a potential label.

Uhhhhhhh!

Eight options of what-I-consider-slasher-flick terminology
to imply the correct spelling of what is an element
of something now considered

so wide-ranging, deeply-ingrained and all-encompassing
as to be paired with the antecedent "sphere" as in,

"the blogosphere" ? ( : - ()

Are your spell-check software supervisors on crack?

What if I am blogging
(spell check doesn't recognize the action verb form of the term
ei--ther....) hurriedly,

and I am so immersed in the stream
that when I perform the spell check,
my adoring fingering encounters a lapse of brief carelessness,

and I end up saying to someone in the sphere,

"I loved your blot about your mother's mishap ." ???????

Or even worse...... log? ( : - +)

"I was really moved by your log in which you conjured early adolescence so specifically."

My once facile, feeling fingers become numb thumbs.

Now I absolutely adore that you name a PDA after a succulent
(and not so generic) fruit, that there is a
not-that-obvious sexual innuendo
(as in allusions to "the darker the berry"....),

but please put some more dollars towards systems anal-ysis
and update your spell check with terms that have been
in uber-ly wide usage for like a decade?

I just bet when I press send, "uber"
is going to be bathed in lavender.....

Pop up on this! : numbskulls

Oooooouch! That smarts! ( : - #)

Something called a blackberry should be nourishing in all aspects

Using that phrase as a new tag line will require remuneration.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
(only to www.bodymythology.blogspot.com
and a few choice friends)