Great New Year's Resolution: Speak Proper English
Language is the key to ideas. When people practice sloppy language, what they are really doing is admitting their own disordered thought patterns. Using proper language, spelling, diction, and vocabulary is the sign of someone who has taken the time to discipline their thoughts. It also reminds me of a scene from "Akeela and the Bee" where the spelling coach instructs young Akeela on the necessity for proper use of grammar.
You can answer "yes" or "no", agreeing or disagreeing with the presenter. IN case of the latter you are expected to elaborate your own view.
This is what I think it means.
My favorite peeve is "at the end of the day" closing a sentence. The presenter is trying to emphasize his view by stating what's going to happen if certain things are done.
How does he know what will happen by day's end? Of course no one is going to check it so the guy gets away with it, playing the "wise".
In case anyone is going to read this and isn't familiar with how AutoCorrect in MS Office handles capitalization (and would want to know), the replacement takes it cue from the "shortcut" word. If I define: cns to be replaced by constitution, Cns gets replaced with Constitution, and CNS gets replaced with CONSTITUTION.
Then they get elected to con-gress and really show their intelligence.
It's only going to get worse, as "smart" phones allow the use of extensive acronym speech (ROTFLMAO) and emojis in texting. You can now dictate your text and have the responses read back to you audibly, so even the illiterate can communicate thanks to technology. Sad.
Please let Tina and myself know if you plan to butcher English.
Oh, and phuck your Oxford comma!
Unbearable!
But we have nothing to fear from Asian bots as a quick stroll at http://www.Engrish.com demonstrates. I just went through the "Menu" items, clicking Previous Week's Engrish until I had stop from the pain of laughing so hard.
wn > when
bc > because
env > environment
exp > experience
Ribbon versions:
Click the File tab, click Options. In the Word Options dialog box, click Proofing, and then click AutoCorrect Options.
The rest as above.
If you web-search, you can find macros for storing, exporting, and importing your customized AutoCorrect entries. They go into a Word document table where you can edit them in bulk.
Tips: Use non-words for the replace term, otherwise you might get unwanted results from ordinary words.
apx > approximately
doi > Declaration of Independence
cmp > computer
but not com for computer, or you'll end up with bad web addresses in documents, such as www.galtsgulchonline.computer
I set separate entries for singular and plural pairs so I can display only a single entry in my cheat sheet. I set such entries to a color instead of black to indicate a pair. To me, from a typing perspective, the natural addition to create a plural is to repeat the last letter because I already had a finger on the right key. So:
mgt > management (in black in my cheat sheet)
cg > change (in dark red in my cheat sheet to show that I created two entries):
cg > change
cgg > changes
You can also throw in transpositions that Microsoft may not cover, such as:
nad > and
or words that are hard to remember which is right:
consistant > consistent
seperate > separate
For words that get underlined, that's a different issue.
If you live in Conshohocken Pennsylvania, MS Office will not recognize the town name.
You can edit the custom dictionary (or create multiple custom dictionaries) under Proofing.
Perform a web-search to find out where your version of Office keeps custom.dic and open it in Notepad. Or create it if it does not already exist. It's just a list of words that will be "known" as correctly spelled.
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