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Date Posted: 20:20:23 03/14/03 Fri
Author: J.P. Gibb
Subject: Because I haven't posted anything recently (And it's kinda interesting)...

Saw this on the local paper's site, thought I'd share it.

A study at the University of Pittsburgh my alma mater, btw indicates spell-check software may level the playing field between people with differing levels of language skills,
Down with the bourgeois elitists! Power to the proletariat writers! (/Marx) hampering the work of writers and editors who place too much trust in the software.

Not to mention creating MSTer fodder.

In the study, 33 undergraduate students were asked to proofread a one-page business letter - half of them using Microsoft Word with its squiggly red and green lines underlining potential errors.

The grammar check is completly useless, I don't know who's grammar it's supposed to to be, but it's not what I learned.

The other half did it the old-fashioned way, using only their heads.

Ho boy, that had to be interesting, college students w/o spell check...

Without grammar or spelling software, students with higher SAT verbal scores made, on average, five errors, compared with 12.3 errors for students with lower scores.

'Kay, if you have a higher SAT verbal score, wouldn't you naturaly be better at writing than someone with a low score?

For instance, the letter included a passage that said, "Michael Bales would be the best candidate. Bales has proven himself in similar rolls."

The software - picking up on the last "s" in "Bales" - suggested changing the verb from "has" to "have," as if it were a plural. Meanwhile, the spell-check ignored "rolls," which should have been "roles."

We know some writers famous for not noticing things like that, ne?

So, complete waste of time, or was this interesting after all?

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SPELL_CHECKED?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME

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(as Th'iia'nel) Fascinating... (/Th'iia'nel)
No, really, good MSTing of a news article. Hmm... That's a thought... MST one of those articles about 'freedom fries'. That would cheer me up... =^-^= (NT) -- Star S., 20:25:17 03/14/03 Fri
- Well, instead of writing that paper on eutrophication, I elected to do this instead. -- Star S., 21:33:05 03/14/03 Fri
  - Great! I did one of those Nigerian spam's in my last MST, that was a hoot!
    Iraqi haggis? Cripes, no wonder they're all pissed off! ^-^ (NT) -- J.P., 23:24:45 03/14/03 Fri
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        I love it when you do that. ^_^ (NT) -- Star S., 20:13:53 03/16/03 Sun
        What, kissing you or knocking Spike unconsicous so we don't have to listen to his stupid kiss-for-a-dollar jokes (That will inevetable lead to me or one of the other Magni putting a foot through him) when I kiss you? (NT) -- J. T., 20:43:18 03/17/03 Mon
        B-)I wondered what you were hintin' at... ::picks up and chucks the bulk of the bookcase off of Spike:: And to think you loaded it with paperbacks too...you cunning bastard. You, ofcourse, know we promised Star we wouldn't make any more KFAD jokes b/t you two. ::pulls Spike to his feet, his head bleedin', and hangs one of Spike's arms over his shoulder:: Damn, man. Seriously, it was JT, in the messageboard, with the bookcase. ~__~' -- /\/\3|\|k1|\|, 21:20:00 03/17/03 Mon
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