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To: thoughtomator
I also have a too-old-school-for-spellcheck chip on my shoulder ;)

LOL>|

I write a nostalgia column - 18 years now on that one - and I get to use lots of colloquialisms...which I love to feed into the spell-checker. 'Drives it nuts, which delights me. One new-fangled thing that I can still outwit :o)

119 posted on 03/28/2006 9:45:17 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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To: maine-iac7

I do a lot of double entendre, which causes a typical grammar checker to weep hysterically, and I have a really bad problem with run-on sentences, which I can't help because I try to keep continuity between ideas and periods, well, you know, get in the way, and that's not very much fun at all, so I have to disable both spell checkers and grammar checkers whenever I get a new program with those functions which thankfully isn't often, but it happens sometimes, and I always get really annoyed the first time the window pops up, I'm like "F-U I'll write the way I damn please and I'll be damned if I'm going to take lessons from a machine whose first language is Assembler", at which point the boss walks over and tells me to watch my language in the office or else I lose diversity points, or something like that.


120 posted on 03/28/2006 10:21:59 PM PST by thoughtomator (Pacifism is objectively pro-terrorist; Amnesty for illegals is objectively anti-American)
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