not to nitpick, but...

[vanitashaze]

...Why the fuck doesn't SpellCheck recognize "homoerotic" as a real word?

My dear Jack Kerouac, you are making typing hard.

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Jack Kerouac: misogynistic jackass unsuccessfully repressing homoerotic tensions!

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

(Also a good poet or prose writer once in a long while, but the barren stretches sure do seem long to me!)

I can't even remember the topic of my IB History Internal Assessment paper now. Is that reassuring? I hope so.

Things like that make me ignore spell check on a general basis. Oh, you've reminded me of something that one of my erstwhile professors talked about not long ago - egregious heteronormativity in a set of current OED definitions. Sadly, the details have fallen down my personal memory hole. I guess at least the OED includes "homoerotic"...

Re: Jack Kerouac: misogynistic jackass unsuccessfully repressing homoerotic tensions!

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

I believe you have successfully summed up Jack Kerouac in a single sentence. Good for you!

But, God, yes. The more research I did on Jack Kerouac the more I wanted to shove a potato in his exhaust pipe (not a euphemism). By the end up the project I absolutely hated the guy; I was literally growling as I typed up the conclusion. Though I discover a love for Allen Ginsberg, though, so this project has not been a complete wash.

But... it's a word. How do you not have a word in a dictionary, no matter obscure it may be? And calling it "obscure" is stretching it; I can safely say that I use "homoerotic" far more than I do "puerile", and yet the latter is in SpellCheck, and the former isn't.

It simply boggles my mind.

Re: Jack Kerouac: misogynistic jackass unsuccessfully repressing homoerotic tensions!

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

I believe you have successfully summed up Jack Kerouac in a single sentence. Good for you!

Ha - I do try!

The more research I did on Jack Kerouac the more I wanted to shove a potato in his exhaust pipe (not a euphemism). By the end up the project I absolutely hated the guy; I was literally growling as I typed up the conclusion.

Ahaha. You know I'd say the reaction's warranted!

Ginsberg >>> Kerouac.

And calling it "obscure" is stretching it; I can safely say that I use "homoerotic" far more than I do "puerile", and yet the latter is in SpellCheck, and the former isn't.

Hey, same here - and I don't think it's an obscure word either.