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Grammar check article on Slashdot

I submitted an article to Slashdot today and it was accepted!  Within a few hours, it collected over 200 comments.

My submission was based on an above-the-fold, front-page article in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer on a marketing professor's attempt to get Microsoft to improve the grammar checker found in Microsoft Word.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of the grammar checker.  I use Microsoft Word to edit my e-mail messages and have the grammar checker flagging grammar and style.  The only options I have turned off are "Use of first person", "Passive Sentences", and "Contractions".  I wish I could use the editor for these blogging posts (I know I can via various tools, but it's slows down the process and I blog less often).

Todd Bishop of the Seattle PI also blogged about it as well as including a humorous graphic.

Published Mar 28 2005, 02:39 PM by ChuckOp
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Charles Oppermann said:

A poster on Slashdot found an article on The Register that claims the grammar checker is offensive to Lesbians:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/23/msword_2000_offensive_to_lesbians/

Although The Register is proud not to be using the software they comment on, I was able to confirm the suggested change with Word 2003 (SP1).

March 29, 2005 10:45 AM
 

Jerry Dennany said:

A /. story on Grammar. Isn't that ironic?
March 29, 2005 2:15 PM
 

TrackBack said:

Seattle PI
March 29, 2005 5:24 PM
 

manuela said:

wat the hell is this,oh that suck

September 9, 2007 12:16 AM

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