The Lazy Writer's Guide To Grammar...
...is Microsoft Word, says this article in the Arts Telegraph:
"If I am at all typical, the generation of novelists that grew up using computers didn't study English grammar at school (I did study some French grammar, in the sense that I slept through the classes). If my teachers never corrected my grammar, why on earth should I listen to the advice of a teenage geek programmer from Microsoft? Yet I do."
"If I am at all typical, the generation of novelists that grew up using computers didn't study English grammar at school (I did study some French grammar, in the sense that I slept through the classes). If my teachers never corrected my grammar, why on earth should I listen to the advice of a teenage geek programmer from Microsoft? Yet I do."
posted by PrufrockTwo at
29.7.05
2 Comments:
Especially for those who write in indianisms. But that's why MS Word's best option is "Ignore All."
Bam! I sock 'em so hard.
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chamique, at 11:35 AM
Absolutely. Those squiggly lines simply have to be done away with.
By
PrufrockTwo, at 8:51 AM
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