Comments | syntonic_comma: MSWindows foreign-language support

syntonic_comma

MSWindows foreign-language support

Jul 29, 2006 11:35

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dglenn July 29 2006, 16:18:10 UTC

Huh. I just tried the Unix spellchecker in NetBSD and it doesn't like 'verbing' either ... but 'singinging' still passes, just like it did twenty years ago.

BTW, you might get a kick out of this off-colour (probably NSFW but was in a newspaper?) Mac/Win comparison.

the triumph of hope over experience? syntonic_comma July 30 2006, 00:32:31 UTC

Windows: Fool me once, shame on you.

anniemal July 29 2006, 16:31:11 UTC

James Thurber wrote an essay on verbing. It's kinda funny. More witty. I'll try to find it if you want. Apparently this plague's been around a goodly while.

realinterrobang July 29 2006, 18:12:46 UTC

I'd give my left arm to be able to completely revamp the dictionary in Word. As it is, I'm just going to have to ingratiate myself with the OpenOffice people. (OO's documentation isn't the pits anymore, but it's just kind of the stringy stuff stuck to them these days.)