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Check it out: Jesse Jackson is so dumb he even misspells words when he speaks :
quote:Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, said that the pop star "deserves due process," and that "the newsrooms should remain objective and the global community must not hasten to judgement."
Heck, he can't even be quoted without the punctuation getting messed up.
Or Yahoo news could be incompetent. *shrug*
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That was one. Also the spelling of "judgment."
(Which is also misspelled on a recommendation form I was asked to fill out for a local university . . . When I pointed it out to a counselor at my school, she argued with me! )
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Hate to tell you this, Ic, but she was right. I confirmed with Merriam-Webster -- "judgment" is the original spelling; "judgement" an acceptable variant.
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Several physical dictionaries I looked it up in, and MS Word, FWIW, don't recognize "judgement."
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My spell-checker doesn't like it either. But it has been used in the UK for some time, and seems to have become accepted here as well. I still think it looks wrong -- but I also am still getting used to using "hopefully" to mean "it is to be hoped." Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I thought the Universe was actually pretty liberal. They were all agitating against the U.S. invading Iraq. So if they were ignorant of the liberal bias, is it possible they are part of it?
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MS Word's spell checker is pretty lacking. It misses lots of other perfectly cromulent words. What dictionaries did you check? Merriam-Webster and American Heritage both have it, and M-W is one of the best dictionaries out there.
The Universe, liberal? This is the first I've heard about it. Sure, people have protested the war in Iraq, but everybody's doing that. That hardly makes them liberal.
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The only things worth reading in the Universe were Eric Snyder's column, the student opinions, and Police Beat. I could never tell if Police Beat were written tongue-in-cheek or not. It tried so hard to be serious about what were usually such funny events. It would get to the end of telling about somebody's can of pop being stolen, and then say, "Police are still investigating the incident." Delicious.
The student opinions were worth a few chuckles at well. I'm fairly conservative, but some of these guys took the cake. I remember one guy scolding the women on campus for being too good looking and making all the men have inappropriate thoughts. And he was serious. Everyone on campus with a stick too far up their you-know-where seemed to get their turn in the op-ed pages.
Eric Snyder, of course, was usually the only reason I picked up the paper on whatever day his column ran (I can't remember). He was the closest thing to a celebrity that I ever saw at BYU.
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Microsoft Word keeps trying to make me change "there" to "they're" in one spot, and I definitely mean "over there" as opposed to "they are." Spell check telling me I'm wrong. Posts: 981 | Registered: Aug 2003
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That's not spell check, that's grammar check. And MS Word's grammar check should be turned off. It is literally wrong more often than right.
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It is indeed. OTOH, if you know the rules of grammar fairly well, it can be a useful way to catch silly errors. Like the verbs I put in the wrong tense all over Hatrack yesterday! Don't know what was wrong with me, but I later caught three (I think) times where my verb doesn't agree with my subject or is in the wrong tense.
I am NOT going to go back and fix them. I am NOT that obsessive. No, really, I'm not. (Well, and having an edit time/date hours and hours later than the post bothers me more. )
I'm just going to let them stay there and bug the hell out of me. Especially since one already got quoted by someone. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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