{"id":3373,"date":"2014-11-12T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T05:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T04:59:46","slug":"see-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/see-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"See the future&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who wrote the code for MS Word&#8217;s spelling and grammar check, but I&#8217;m pretty sure they don&#8217;t actually know anything about grammar.  Or spelling.  Dictionary words are quite frequently not in Word&#8217;s dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any idea how many times I write <i>grammer<\/i> before I spell it <i>grammar<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>THANKS, ANDY.<\/p>\n<p>*ahem*<\/p>\n<p>I type &#8220;<i>Is it true?<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Word tries to convince me it&#8217;s supposed to be &#8220;<i>Am it true?<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NO, WORD, it am not true.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Word does not know the proper use of <i>its<\/i> and <i>it&#8217;s<\/i> because it is constantly trying to correct it to the other regardless of how I use it.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t like my usage of the name DuFresne and always wants to change it to <i>deferens<\/i>.  We&#8217;re not talking <i>vasectomies<\/i>, <i>WORD<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It keeps trying to correct <i>lied<\/i> to <i>laid<\/i> and that just makes for an entirely different story I hadn&#8217;t planned on writing.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t even get me started on <i>SENTENCE FRAGMENTS<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Word:<\/b> Fragment (consider revising)<\/p>\n<p><i>Consider revising<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Could you please be more general?<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m pretty sure Word&#8217;s definition of <i>fragment<\/i> is not at all the same as the actual definition of fragment.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2014pics\/fragment.png\" title=\"I do not think that means what you think it means, WORD.\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Two sentences, nearly identical.<\/p>\n<p><i>I love you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Word:<\/b> has no problem with this<\/p>\n<p><i>I love you, Katie.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Word:<\/b> Fragment! Fragment! Fragment!<\/p>\n<p>Are you just fucking with me?  How does making the sentence more specific turn it into a fragment?<\/p>\n<p>You keep using that word.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think it means what you think it means.<\/p>\n<p>It aren&#8217;t that hard.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iiXIDdR5qfE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Red Vs Blue season 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/iiXIDdR5qfE\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"RvB The Hard Stop\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 6: The Hard Stop<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:375px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\">\n<tr>\n<td col style=\"width:60px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/graphics\/headphones50.png\" title=\"now playing...\"><\/td>\n<td col style=\"width:315px;border:1px solid #cccccc;vertical-align:middle;\">Shut Up and Dance<br \/>\nWalk the Moon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who wrote the code for MS Word&#8217;s spelling and grammar check, but I&#8217;m pretty sure they don&#8217;t actually know anything about grammar. Or spelling. Dictionary words are quite frequently not in Word&#8217;s dictionary. Do you have any idea how many times I write grammer before I spell it grammar? THANKS, ANDY. *ahem* I type &#8220;Is it true?&#8221; Word tries to convince me it&#8217;s supposed to be &#8220;Am it true?&#8221; NO, WORD, it&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/see-the-future\/\" class=\"readmore\">Keep reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">See the future&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2014pics\/fragment.png","fifu_image_alt":"I do not think that means what you think it means, WORD.","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,164,92,258,49,12],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-brain-hurts","category-nablopomo","category-red-vs-blue","category-spell-check-is-drunk","category-videos","category-writing","tag-223","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/media\/blog\/2014pics\/fragment.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11465,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/11465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}