Comments on: Untrustyworthiness Grammar Checker http://www.meryl.net/2002/04/22/untrustyworthiness-grammar-checker/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, social media Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:21:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: NJ Meryl http://www.meryl.net/2002/04/22/untrustyworthiness-grammar-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-393 NJ Meryl Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:16:54 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2002/04/22/untrustyworthiness-grammar-checker/#comment-393 <p>I never let Word tell me my grammar is right or wrong. And even though I use the spell-checker occasionally, it's usually accompanied by very loud swearing and "WHAT DO YOU MEAN XXXX IS NOT A WORD?!?!"</p> <p>It is truly one of the biggest jokes in publishing. A friend of mine who used to work for MS said they outsourced everything, and it wasn't a high priority. You can tell.</p> I never let Word tell me my grammar is right or wrong. And even though I use the spell-checker occasionally, it’s usually accompanied by very loud swearing and “WHAT DO YOU MEAN XXXX IS NOT A WORD?!?!”

It is truly one of the biggest jokes in publishing. A friend of mine who used to work for MS said they outsourced everything, and it wasn’t a high priority. You can tell.

]]> By: joel http://www.meryl.net/2002/04/22/untrustyworthiness-grammar-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-392 joel Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:05:58 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2002/04/22/untrustyworthiness-grammar-checker/#comment-392 <p>Believe it or not, apostrophes are acceptable when writing numbers referring to decades. It's one of the more painful things I've learned online.</p> <p>Now you want to know where, don't you? Gonna make me go find it again?</p> <p>It's still evil. Please don't do it.</p> Believe it or not, apostrophes are acceptable when writing numbers referring to decades. It’s one of the more painful things I’ve learned online.

Now you want to know where, don’t you? Gonna make me go find it again?

It’s still evil. Please don’t do it.

]]> By: John Kenneth Fisher http://www.meryl.net/2002/04/22/untrustyworthiness-grammar-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-391 John Kenneth Fisher Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:34:52 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2002/04/22/untrustyworthiness-grammar-checker/#comment-391 <p>You're gotcha's frigten me.</p> You’re gotcha’s frigten me.

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