Re: For Creative Writers. Grammar Check Question.
From: Elliott Roper (nospam_at_yrl.co.uk)
Date: 12/09/04
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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:32:59 +0000
In article <0bbe01c4dd90$ba51ab00$a601280a@phx.gbl>, DC Berk
<dcberk@anon.com> wrote:
> So, I was reading a list I get today, and guess what popped up in a member's
> email:
>
> College paper due. Content includes a sentence that a certain situation or
> condition causes a particular result.
>
> The Word grammar checker flagged "causes".
>
> And suggested: cause's
>
> Need I say more. :-)
Heh! I think Word decided that since it was so bad already, that adding
another mistake would be rather good fun.
I dunno about your copy, but mine has long ago gone feral. It is the
overweight sulky teenager of computer programs. ;-)
I gave that to the grammar checker, which after suggesting "don't know"
for 'dunno', made no further objection. So you can still get away with
insulting it, as long as it does not understand the insult. That works
on teenagers too.
-- I thought I would be the last on earth to mung my e-mail address. fsnospam$elliott$$
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