Am I the only one who actually gets angry at the MS Word spell check?

[kingshearte]

Seriously, I know it's ridiculous, but I find myself getting personally offended when it suggests that I don't know the difference between "there" and "their," and in fact goes so far as to recommend the one that makes no grammatical sense whatsoever

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[thenodrin]

While working on the White star book, it was very frustrating getting edit suggestions from a certain development team member who was trusting MS Word's gramar check to be correct.

Add to that the fact that this same person just recently took a college course on creative writing where she was taught that the "correct" way to write fiction was in 3rd person passive past tense, and the fiction parts of the book were all in 1st or 3rd person active present tense, and I had to grab my hands to not flame her. Instead I just recognized that she's doing what she was recently taught and politely (or, as politely as I could) rejected all of her suggestions.

(This second bit is from where I discovered while I was in school that professors teach to always write 3rd person passive past tense specifically so that they don't have to read the classwork. They can just skim through looking for words without bothering with content. My favourite college professor was the one who agreed with me that active present tense gives a more immediate feeling if you are writing suspense, and he is the one who told me why other teachers insisted I write past tense in everything.)

Theno

[kingshearte]

There are teachers who insist on passive voice? Really? Wow. I'm glad I never had those teachers. Even Word knows better than to run around writing everything in passive.