it was a dark and stormy translation.

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When you use Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) to dictate your thoughts in text, the idea is to not mumble or slur your words when speaking into the microphone.

You can see how this would be a problem for the great writers of our age. For example, Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his greatest works while drinking Mojitos. Obviously, his typewriter handle slurring speech quite well.

But that was then, and this is now: a new day of great technology and even better drinks. So how many potentially famous writers will go unrecognized this century because of DNS technology. After all, the translated slur of "it was a dark and stormy night" into “you was dark and Dorney night” does not lend itself to Pulitzer Prize winning works of literature.

I know what you are thinking. Lewis Carroll did rather well with Jabberwocky Naturally Speaking. But that was last millennium ...