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Subject:Re: Levity in the workplace From:Dianne Walsh <ldwalsh -at- VOICENET -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:37:28 -0400
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I wrote about datasets and my spellchecker insisted
on changing "dataset" to "detest"... Hmmmm...
Freudian slips from a spellchecker
[Dianne Walsh] Sometimes those spellcheckers can be downright uncanny. The name of a company I once worked for caused the checker to offer "anuses" as an alternative. My current company's name causes "indecision" to pop up. All I can say is that both just might be appropriate. . .
Dianne Walsh
Sr. Technical Writer someplace or the other
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