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The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language
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The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language
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Re: The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language
The power of the Word ...
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Not to worry, but the next generation will let AI do its writing and start the slide into the technical idiots H. G. Wells envisioned for the future of mankind. It'll just be here much sooner than the 800,000 years the traveler went to meet those lost souls.
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Yes indeed. Ron, you more than most people are probably aware of the grating influence of MSWord (and its like) where we wrestle with the spelling we were raised with and the spelling we are herded to by an inflexible dictionary. I hated being coerced into Americanisms ("Americanism" most likely BEING an Americanism), but, perhaps old age, and coming around to the view that a
The data-gathering part of me thinks that a mountain of text that can be searched without complex rules adjusting to dialects might, after all, be a Good Thing.
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Not to worry, PJ.
As long as there remains a pool of talented computer-programmers who insist on developing code script with paper-and-pencil. writing will not die out.
Only when good programmers fall by the way-side do we need to start worrying, and by then it will be too late!
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Re: The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language
Apart from yourself, are there any such people still alive?ChrisGreaves wrote: ↑01 Nov 2023, 12:07...
As long as there remains a pool of talented computer-programmers who insist on developing code script with paper-and-pencil. writing will not die out...
I was never aware of any of the talented coders who I worked with in the last 20 years of my working life developing code using paper and pencil.
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Well, there was the mathematician with constipation who worked it out with a pencil.
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Logs, Geoff. LOGS!
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