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Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: Icarus on December 06, 2005, 10:53:17 PM: "Neither do I" should be "Neither do me." I can only assume it means something sexual.

Your favorite examples?
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: Jonathon on December 07, 2005, 09:23:55 AM: It's been so long since I've bothered to use Word's "grammar checker" that I've forgotten any funny corrections it's suggested.
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: Mr. Anderson on December 07, 2005, 11:07:12 AM: Did you use the spell chekker, too?
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: Noemon on December 07, 2005, 08:52:29 PM: Quote
It's been so long since I've bothered to use Word's "grammar checker" that I've forgotten any funny corrections it's suggested.

So then you could put up a little plaque outside your cubicle at work that says "Office of the Exchequer".

Yeah, it's stupid, I know. They can't *all* be funny.
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: AFR on December 12, 2005, 10:42:06 PM: Word checks grammar?!

Something else I've always wondered: what do all those green squiggly lines mean?
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: sarcasticmuppet on December 12, 2005, 11:12:02 PM: they mean "Ignore me!"
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: Brinestone on December 13, 2005, 08:26:08 AM: They mean Word wants you to feel you are doing well.
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Post by: Mr. Anderson on December 13, 2005, 09:08:17 AM: Word should keep score. Like, give you a trophy in the top right corner of the screen for each green squiggly.
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Post by: pooka on December 13, 2005, 09:14:30 AM: Oh, yeah, I was typing on a computer that didn't have those turned off this morning.
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: Mr. Anderson on December 13, 2005, 12:07:34 PM: My favorite thing about MS Office is that friendly little paper clip. With him around, I feel like I can format with the best.
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: sarcasticmuppet on December 13, 2005, 12:08:17 PM: O.o
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Post by: pooka on December 13, 2005, 02:55:32 PM: Do you have the option of turning him into a puppy, a kitten, or a better world?
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Post by: sarcasticmuppet on December 13, 2005, 04:42:58 PM: don't forget the wizard, or the magical Microsoft Logo
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Post by: pooka on December 13, 2005, 05:04:30 PM: If they had a little talking Satan smiley, I might use that. I like to call things by their right names.
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Post by: Icarus on January 20, 2006, 05:10:44 AM: "Approximate answers to the nearest tenth," is a sentence fragment.

And then it has the gall to say to me, "Consider revising."

*blink*

Hello?!
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Post by: pooka on January 20, 2006, 07:09:55 AM: It said it was a sentence fragment or you are saying it is a sentence fragment? It's confusing because your quote has a comma at the end.
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Post by: rivka on January 20, 2006, 07:26:56 AM: In its defense, the word is more commonly used as an adjective than as a verb. But I have the same problem when writing science tests -- it thinks all kinds of things are fragments.
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Post by: Teshi on January 20, 2006, 08:49:52 AM: Yeah, it took me a while (like, 20 seconds ;)) to figure out how that was not a sentence fragment.

Machines aren't perfect!
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: Jonathon on January 20, 2006, 09:33:43 AM: Fittingly enough, WordPerfect is a lot more perfect when it comes to these things.
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: Icarus on January 20, 2006, 09:51:26 AM: pooka, it said thatt's a fragment.
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Post by: pooka on February 01, 2006, 09:48:18 PM: I wonder if MS word is responsible for the cover letter we got asking us to "overlook my resume."
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Post by: Jonathon on February 01, 2006, 09:51:03 PM: Sounds like good old-fashioned bad usage to me.
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Post by: pooka on May 10, 2006, 10:15:32 AM: I just got a message I'd never seen before. It was a popup that said "There are too many spelling and grammar errors in [document name] to display."
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Post by: Porter on May 10, 2006, 10:18:25 AM: *jealous*
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Post by: Jonathon on May 10, 2006, 10:20:31 AM: :lol:
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Post by: pooka on January 28, 2010, 06:14:33 AM: Granted this was microsoft works, but it just turned a misspelling of happening into Japaning. When was Japaning a word?
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Post by: rivka on January 28, 2010, 07:21:49 AM: You sure that's not "japanning (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/japanning)"? It's a specific form of lacquering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanning).
Title: Lies MSWord's grammer chekker told me . . .
Post by: pooka on January 28, 2010, 11:44:21 AM: Ah, so like the times it has put Manger as the most likely word someone would want in a business document.
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Post by: rivka on January 28, 2010, 11:45:58 AM: :lol:
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Post by: pooka on May 12, 2010, 10:08:26 AM: It's resume time again...
"best amongst all fascists of life."
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Post by: Annie Subjunctive on May 12, 2010, 04:33:11 PM: I think that's what Stalin's resume said at least.
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Post by: Jonathon on May 12, 2010, 05:06:58 PM: Probably not Stalin. Maybe Mussolini, though.
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Post by: rivka on July 25, 2010, 01:25:11 PM: Speaking of Stalin (http://barbara-hambly.livejournal.com/64355.html)
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Post by: Jonathon on June 21, 2011, 12:30:48 PM: Word wants to correct "it was all of the devil" to "it was the entire devil". Even if Word could parse the sentence correctly, I have to wonder who programmed in such a stupid usage suggestion.
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Post by: Tante Shvester on June 21, 2011, 12:47:33 PM: A partial devil?
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Post by: Jonathon on June 21, 2011, 01:29:07 PM: Indubitably.