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Spell Check
« on: February 24, 2004, 10:32:16 PM »
heh, you can overload spell check in MS Office. Basically it admits you're too crappy a speller and it can't show you all the errors anymore.

I found this out not because I'm a crappy speller, but because I was using it to review some IM logs. Apparently, it doesn't like "SaintEhlers" or "AIMKije" as words, or the other abbreviations or misspells from hasty chat.
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2004, 10:40:35 PM »
Heh.  Every time I try and spellcheck one of my books--you know, one of the 300,000 word beasts I write--MS Word nearly blows a fuse.
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2004, 11:37:45 PM »
*meaningless plug about the dire need for editors*
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2004, 11:47:22 PM »
Heh.  I'm sure my editor has fun with some of the errors he runs across.  
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2004, 01:19:51 AM »
One of my favorite errors was one that the person's spell check didn't catch--instead of having traditional peasant garb, the person was described as wearing "traditional pheasant garb."  

A very easy mistake, and also very amusing. :)
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2004, 07:25:15 AM »
what other kind of pheasant garb is there?
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2004, 11:04:55 AM »
punk rock pheasant garb?
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2004, 01:06:41 PM »
actually, that was the first type of non-traditional pheasant garb I thought of. Weird, huh?
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2004, 03:56:38 PM »
Hmmmm...

Pheasants running around with too many piercings and Sex Pistols T-Shirts sold to them for $25 at Hot Topic... I could see it happening.
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2004, 07:36:51 PM »
I was thinking more along the lines of "phunk rock pheasant garb."
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2004, 10:53:07 PM »
you know what would be really cool... if alphabet soup had a spell check...that would be awesome unless of course it always arranged itself into highly offensive profanity's, then it might be band in places, and i would laugh.. oh how i would laugh....
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2004, 04:31:50 PM »
I've noticed you laughing at things other people deem "stupid".
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2004, 05:04:41 PM »
Sig, save presonal stuff for IM...
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2004, 05:06:44 PM »
Rants also does not mean "heap personal abuse on people for no reason."

Get some Zoloft, eh?
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Re: Spell Check
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2004, 06:23:56 PM »
Or Ridolin...  It'll stunt your growth but we will all be happy!
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