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Re: conversion at the point of a wordprocessor (fwd)
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From: [email protected] (Jonathan Feinberg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: conversion at the point of a wordprocessor
[email protected] said...
> This was about three years ago and the story found its way onto the
> "Today" programme[1] IIRC. It could well have been works. I remember
> the M$ spokesthing saying that you could turn the feature off if you
> didn't like it (though presumably you still had to pay for it).
And then there's the problem of bigoted spell-checkers...
One time when I was a freshman in college, and Macs were a glorious
novelty [it was 1985], my neighbor across the hall let loose something
between a snort and a guffaw. He had run the built-in MS Word spell-checker
on his history paper. The spell-checker had raised a red flag over the
exotic and little-used word, "Chinese."
Its suggestion?
"Chink."
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Jonathan Feinberg [email protected] Sunny Brooklyn, NY
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