...maybe it’s better this way
is incorrect, and it suggests that I change it to:
...maybe its better this way.
Sometimes I feel like a voice crying in the wilderness. "Make straight the English language", I'm begging you.
Edit:
Just in case you simply can't believe it, here is a screen shot:
12 comments:
Be not in despair. Know that Microsoft Word also believes that 'chrismation' is a typo for 'cremation'. Then be glad that you can override Microsoft Word.
The older you get, the less computers know. Even if I do use mine as a supplemental brain.
Wait, what?! Seriously?!?
Microsoft also constantly tells me, until it goes red in the face, that colour is spelled wrong, that there is no U in honour and I yell back no, no, there's no YOU winning spelling bees, and I want to smash walls when I'm told that behaviour is the wrong spelling.
Dave, you may enjoy http://www.angelfire.com/co/wavesurf/usabad.html
Having grown up on Tolkien and Lewis (before the 'American' version and re-ordering of the Chronicles of Narnia), I think that 'u' adds a certain colour to many words. And I could use another 'e' in judgement.
However, my word verification word is ovale. That does not need the e. Or the o - take your pick. (Do not take you're pick, or yr pick. however.)
Oops - there are multiple versions of that. This one http://www.rebreatherworld.com/surface-interval/36811-cheer-you-up-uk-only-you.html is better.
Carolyn, well done! "Take yr pick": isn't it vile?
Neighbourhood, too.
Shan . . . the grammatical Cassandra.
You should see the bullshit my iPhone suggests to me. Oy veh. And if I don't catch it in time, it autocorrects me into illiteracy. Fiendish device.
Word once told me that I could not use "scarf" as a noun, that it was a verb.
It took me a minute to realize what the heck it was talking about, and another minute to realize that its vocabulary list had probably been built by college kids working as summer interns...
re 'color' vs 'colour', etc.:
I believe that there is a language setting for that. In the Open Office freeware, which is quite a nice imitation of Word (I'm too cheap to buy the real thing), you can select your default language by going into Tools - Options - Language Settings.
Ames, you're comment was awesome!
That one right up their. ^^^
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