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elrhiarhodan ([personal profile] elrhiarhodan) wrote2014-03-10 01:47 pm
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Do You Ever Feel...

Like MS Word wants to write your stories for you?

Damn program keeps insisting that I should use "scars" instead of "scabs".

WTF?

Also, under attack by brain weasels.
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[personal profile] matrixmann 2014-03-10 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Word is stupid when it comes down to idiom or swearing.

[identity profile] ladyrose42.livejournal.com 2014-03-10 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes those auto-corrects make free speech near impossible. Plus I now can't use abbreviations in my texts.

Don't know about brain weasels, do they have a natural enemy to sic on them.
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[personal profile] sinfulslasher 2014-03-10 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, first of all, this clearly means you should write whumped!Neal. Scar the boy! SCAR HIM!

And B, can I just say that I really wish MS Word would write my fics for me? I'll just think it and it will write it. Awesome invention. I shall figure out the damn patent...

(Also? Brain weasels? That's gotta hurt...)

(I now wish I had a weasel icon.)

(Anonymous) 2014-03-10 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I know you aren't alone!
If it's any consolation, I remember a post in the blog of Ursula K. Le Guin (science fiction and fantasy books writer; I'm sorry I can't find the post in her blog...) saying something like "Hands off, Microsoft, the choice of the verb I want to use is MINE!".
I'm not very "tech-savvy", but as some friends of yours already told you, one of the things you can do is clic on "Tools", "Auto correct options..." and remove the "check" from the cell near "Replace text as you type"; you may lose the comfort of the automatic correction of typos, but you can enjoy better your freedom in writing.
I'm not a writer, but I do the same because with the "automatic substitution" active you can also have some "nuisance". For example, I remember a text where the occurrences of "previgente" (Italian adjective for a law that is "in force before") were replaced by "previdente" (meaning "provident", "farsighted")...
(Sorry for errors, I'm not good at "proof reading"... ;-))

[identity profile] joy2190.livejournal.com 2014-03-10 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Scars, scabs sounds interesting, I'll take them both! It seems there is no end to what I enjoy having Neal put through, poor dear!

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2014-03-10 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Word does have some odd ideas - I used to work with a guy with the surname Fatseas, and had to always, always doublecheck stuff because the computer wanted to call him Fatso...

[identity profile] aragarna.livejournal.com 2014-03-10 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Ehehe, also, Word doesn't know the names Caffrey nor Mozzie...
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[personal profile] sapphire2309 2014-03-11 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm through with MS word, unless I need the constant spelling and grammar check - typed essays and the like. I use Yarny for fic now.

Brain weasels does *not* sound nice. *hugs you*
Edited 2014-03-11 11:37 (UTC)
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[personal profile] kanarek13 2014-03-11 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ehehe, hmmmm... if we think about the astronomical amount of White Collar words you have written with MS Word, it's no wonder there are sparks of artificial intelligence in there :P

*hugs*

(Anonymous) 2014-03-12 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I found the "post" by Ursula Le Guin... it was the last part of a FAQ:
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/FAQ.html#Revision
Excuse me for this post, I tried to use "reply" to send it, but LiveJournal says that "the post is marked as spam" (I don't know why) so I don't know if you had the url. If you had my previous post, please delete this. Thank you.
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