(Note: this is a follow-up to my post on jargon that we should ditch and Maria's post on jargon that should return from the dead.)
I used to get really annoyed about MS Word's standard spell-checker with geology terms. It's gotten a bit better - it knows how to spell "plagioclase" now - but it still marks a lot of geologic terms as misspelled.
But now, it's mostly a source of entertainment - at least when Word has suggestions for replacements:
Anastomosing... Anatomizing
Cataclastic... Cataclysmic
Cataclasis... Catalysis
Orogeny... Progeny
Phyllic... Phallic
Phyllite... Phillies
Listric... Lipstick
Rheology... Theology
(And spell-check doesn't replace "asses" with "assess," to the humiliation of many speakers over the years.)
Do you have any favorite suggested replacements?
(Thanks to my students for telling me about some of these.)
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Geo-jargon 3: battle of the spellcheck
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