I am certainly almost autistically-aware of the changing nature of the world. I am also very concerned that I do not know whether "autistically aware" in that sentence is an adjective or not because I just didn't do any parsing as school. I DID do times tables but still can't remember them all. There is of course no need these days but wouldn't it be nice to have an add-in for Word which would show up the part of speech that the cursor was hovering over in a tooltip? Maybe there is such a thing. Last week there was a conversation here about how a real, chunky-buttoned calculator was much more useful than the fiddly little buttons you have to use on the Windows calculator. I suggested that someone should invent a Bluetooth calculator which would squirt its result across to whatever component had focus on the nearest PC. Been done already. Seems like the parsing add-in has as well. Will I ever have an original idea. How about a set of financial products tailored specifically at penguins, a device for wrapping baked potatoes to keep them warm (sure that's been done - ed), toothbrushes for whales. The potential is enormous.
I'm with these people I am afraid.
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