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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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About ChuckOp

Charles Oppermann is 25-year veteran of software design. He is the original author of the popular JAWS screen reader for people with visual impairments, and spent over a decade at Microsoft working on accessibility and user experience in the Windows, Internet Explorer and speech product groups. Charles was a representative to the W3C and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and the author of two technical books published by Microsoft Press. He has also worked at Cisco Systems, Amazon.com, and is currently Program Manager and Development Supervisor for Consumer Security Products at GFI Software.
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