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To: Mrs Ivan
The program checks English words and eliminates those not included in the 1,500-strong Globish list.

There was a passage in Orwells classic book "1984" where the IngSocs were boasting of the fact that their language was actually losing words each year.

Leave it to the French to be proud of doing just that.

L

6 posted on 12/11/2006 2:25:15 AM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: Lurker

There is a microsoft Word plugin floating around call either Bullshitfigher or Bullfighter that strips out all Clintonesque mealy mouth language and also corporate middle management meaningless trivial language.

It's quite fun to take a C Span transcript and put it through the Bull filter.


12 posted on 12/11/2006 2:35:42 AM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: Lurker

Ok, so there is also the opposite to the free Bullfighter software.

http://www.whitesmoke.com/ is software made to increase the meaningless catch phrases in your Word documents, as a design feature. And they want you to pay for it.


16 posted on 12/11/2006 2:39:39 AM PST by JerseyHighlander
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