I know what you mean. One wonders if very many people understand the basics of language enough to know when the computer is wrong, and if so, why don't they look closely enough to see what kind of disaster they are printing up officially.
I saw a newspaper editorial with a headline complaining about "breading", when it meant "breeding". Most amusing, but SO unprofessional!
I don't have a job, while those idiots do. That is the most irritating aspect of it for me.
I don't have a job, while those idiots do. That is the most irritating aspect of it for me.
YES. And the number of them, I mean, how many pairs of eyes must this stuff pass in front of before it's actually published? It has to be a lot. And those are a lot of people who should still be in high school. But they have college degrees, most of them, and I don't. It's a funny old world.
About a year ago, one of my long-time Internet friends said to me, "With your degree, you won't have trouble finding a job." Of course, I have never claimed to have a degree. On occasion, I have mentioned that the health issues got in the way of my completing college. However, people like us come across to other educated people as being equally educated, because we are. We just didn't go through official channels. :)
I agree so much with this whole thread and the original post!
I always turn off the grammar check because it is pretty much always wrong if you have even a marginally complicated sentence. I'm a pretty bad speller, but I don't use the spell check. I just see which words have the red squiggly lines under them and look them up in the dictionary
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What it is is that they don't want to pay someone to do it, at a lot of places. They cut corners and try to get away with it, hoping no one will notice. And many people don't, which is why you see apostrophes in plurals all over the damn place these days.
Anyway. I had to turn off the red squiggly lines a long time ago. I write a lot of fantasy, and in fantasy there are place names and character names and names of magical things and animals and whatnot that are made up so obviously the computer isn't going to recognize them. I could just add them to its dictionary, but my parents trained me out of doing that when I was still using their computer so that they didn't then find my imaginary countries as spelling options when they were trying to write business communications. XD
I saw a newspaper editorial with a headline complaining about "breading", when it meant "breeding". Most amusing, but SO unprofessional!
I don't have a job, while those idiots do. That is the most irritating aspect of it for me.
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YES. And the number of them, I mean, how many pairs of eyes must this stuff pass in front of before it's actually published? It has to be a lot. And those are a lot of people who should still be in high school. But they have college degrees, most of them, and I don't. It's a funny old world.
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Of course, I have never claimed to have a degree. On occasion, I have mentioned that the health issues got in the way of my completing college. However, people like us come across to other educated people as being equally educated, because we are. We just didn't go through official channels. :)
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I always turn off the grammar check because it is pretty much always wrong if you have even a marginally complicated sentence. I'm a pretty bad speller, but I don't use the spell check. I just see which words have the red squiggly lines under them and look them up in the dictionary ( ... )
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Anyway. I had to turn off the red squiggly lines a long time ago. I write a lot of fantasy, and in fantasy there are place names and character names and names of magical things and animals and whatnot that are made up so obviously the computer isn't going to recognize them. I could just add them to its dictionary, but my parents trained me out of doing that when I was still using their computer so that they didn't then find my imaginary countries as spelling options when they were trying to write business communications. XD
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