New group project! Dump the list of additions you’ve made to your computer’s spell checker. It’s embarrassingly revealing and fun!
Instructions:
If, like most of the Society, you use a Mac and do most of your typing in programs that support the systemwide spell checking utility (ie. anything but Word), here’s what to do. Open your Home folder, then Library → Spelling. Take the “en” file and drop it onto TextEdit, or your favorite text editor. (The file may be broken up by a nonsense character that you have to use the find and replace utility to replace with line breaks.) The contents of this file are all the words you added to your spell checker. Sort the list then copy and paste it here.
BoxCarl’s spelling list:
- agora
- Anathematic
- Dionysian
- disconfirming
- enjambed
- eyepatch
- fetishized
- flyswatter
- folktale
- gravitas
- hashbrowns
- layabouts
- moshing
- mythos
- opposingly
- peacenik
- phytoplankton
- stereotaxic
- unaddressed
- unwinnable
- upwelling
- y’all
Existential Calvinist’s spelling list:
- æsthetic
- alienness
- Analects
- aporetic
- ataraxia
- auteur
- autodidactic
- axiology
- Bashô
- beginningless
- Blyth
- Blyth’s
- Bodhidharma
- Bodhisattva
- breakages
- cognize
- cognized
- cognizing
- commonsensically
- contemplatives
- Dialetheism
- Dionysus
- discursion
- Dostoevsky
- dubitable
- Einsteinian
- Eleatics
- epistemic
- epistemically
- explicandum
- explicans
- finitude
- Fukuyama
- haikai
- Heian
- Heidegger
- Heraclitus
- hiraku
- Hobbesian
- hokku
- Hume
- Hume’s
- ideality
- immiserate
- immiserated
- incognizable
- inconsolate
- indubitability
- Irresolvability
- Jainists
- justificatory
- kakekotoba
- Kant
- Kant’s
- Kierkegaard
- kigo
- kireji
- Leibniz
- Locke
- Mādhyamaka
- Masaoka
- Meiji
- Mencius
- metamathematics
- Michelangelo
- Murti
- nihility
- Nishitani
- Nishitani’s
- nominalize
- noumena
- noumenal
- noumenon
- outstare
- outstared
- Panopticon
- paraconsistent
- Parmenides
- Peripatetics
- Picasso
- Platonist
- Platonists
- posteriori
- predispositions
- propaedeutic
- psychologizing
- qualia
- Raphael’s
- Rawls
- renga
- Rescher
- Schopenhauer
- self-justificatory
- Shinkokinshû
- Shintô
- significating
- sorites
- soteriological
- soteriology
- Spinoza
- substantialist
- substantialists
- syllogize
- tanka
- tautologous
- teleportation
- teleported
- teleporter
- teleporting
- undergirds
- undichotomized
- undisclosable
- unsayable
- unschematized
- unsuppressible
- waka
- Zeno
Earthbound kid’s spelling list:
- abiogenesis
- co-owner
- desperations
- elites
- Filipina
- Furman
- googly
- haniwa
- karaoké
- Nietzsche
- nihilo
- Nintendo
- Pontius
- quesadillas
- retreading
- Sacagawea
- Tetris
- Yum
Curl’s spelling list:
- ain’t
- archrival
- bollocks
- celadon
- Duchamp
- Fukuoka
- geomancy
- Hypoxia
- koans
- Manichean
- Okinawa
- personhood
- priceyness
- romanized
- samsara
- Takaoka
- theodicies
- theodicy
- theremin
- Toyama
- unresolvable
- Warhol