MS-Word rant

[John C. Mozena]

In article <m2emyg2...@desk.crynwr.com>,
Russell Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote:

>Sheesh, what a lame rant, from some luser who can't even spel his own
>name right! Lookit, if your name isn't in MS-Word's dictionary,
>clearly you should allow it to spell-correct your name, and change
>your name to whatever it gives you. Otherwise you are some sort of
>Luddite.

Just for fun, I checked out a couple other names.

Word 98 (8.0) recognizes Gates, Allen, Clinton, Gore and Satan.

It wants to correct McNealy, Andreessen, Lessig and Linux.

I smell conspiracy. Somebody call the Justice Department.

>Remember the "school-refusers", much-talked about in Japan a couple of
>years ago? Well, you're one of those Word-refusers. You must be
>banished from the kingdom of goodness and light until you have
>corrected yourself.

Well, the Fall wasn't all that vertigo-inducing.

>I'll bet you'd even flame someone for writing a Linux HOWTO in Word in
>comp.sys.embedded.

I don't really care what other people use -- I just hate what I'm required
to use at work. Even older versions of Word aren't as malignant -- bloated
and useless, yes, but not malignant.

(I know I've been reading too much cyberpunk recently when I start
imagining surgery when I see "comp.sys.embedded.")

And we all know that you're supposed to use HTML to write Linux FAQs,
right?

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