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November 29, 2007

[Flies out using jetpack.]

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I bet Joyce couldn't have written the way that he wrote if he'd had to constantly battle Microsoft Word's idea of what constitutes a proper sentence.

I have managed to make it stop red-lining the words it thinks I've misspelled. (You know, those esoteric things like proper names, or the word "blog.") But the wavy green line under sentence fragments or long -- not even run-on, just long -- sentences are proving trickier to eliminate.

When you are working to eliminate your inner critic, there's nothing like a big prissy computer program coming along and spoiling things with its stupid green pen.

This round to you, Microsoft. But the game is far from over.

Posted by didofoot at November 29, 2007 02:22 PM

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Can't you turn that thing off? I would support you in doing that. Microsoft Word is not a style guide. It doesn't know anything. Don't listen to it.

But:
But the wavy green line under sentence fragments or long -- not even run-on, just long -- sentences are proving trickier to eliminate.

Please imagine that I have written a wavy green line under this and I am shaking my head and clucking about subject-verb agreement. Thank you.

Posted by: Dianna at November 29, 2007 04:42 PM

oh argh. good catch.

Posted by: didofoot at November 30, 2007 08:26 AM

You can, and should, turn it off. Tools/Spelling and Grammar/Options and then click away. You're in charge here.

And if you ever feel uncertain, go to Bartleby or some other online literature, copy out the text and run it through Word's grammar checker. Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Yet beautiful.

Posted by: kt at December 3, 2007 03:58 PM

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