Microsoft Word, and its step-sibling Outlook, has got a lot more irritating in the past couple of years. I don’t know whether it’s AI, or just someone deciding that what people really need is not just spellcheck, but grammar and punctuation suggestions. And there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn those “features off.
Believe me, if I could find it, I would.
Since the seventh grade, when Miss Bauer rammed the tools of English into us, I
have not needed any jumped-up bog standard “help” with language, thank you very
much.
But, back to spellcheck: a couple of weeks
ago, Outlook signaled that it didn’t like “gormless” as my choice of descriptor
for someone who absolutely personifies the quality. So when I clicked on the
word, these are the substitutes it suggested:
Now—why would you object to “gormless” the
adjective, but be perfectly happy with “gormlessly”, the adverb? See why I want to turn the dag-blamed thing off?
(As I write this, it’s still giving me the
wavy red line under the offending word.)
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