Ahhhhh, but what happens when 25 years down the road when
the latest version of your spell and grammar checker is
designed and promulgated by the High School and College
graduates who can't spell and read properly today?

Shudder.

I noticed bogus words are finding their way into our
published dictionaries.  I would have never thought
a correct spelling for "vendor" was "vender" until I
found it in a hardcopy of the American Heritage
Dictionary the other day.

>At  09:50 AM 9/12/00, Paul Scott wrote:
>>There is no excuse for this when spell and grammar checkers are built into

>>just about every application today.
>
>Actually, the profileration of spell-check and grammar checkers *is* the
>excuse.  That's because they are part of the cause of the problem in the
>same way that the proliferation of calculators (and to my horror when my
>children were in elementary school a required school supply!) has lead to
>no one under 30 seeming to be able to do basic arithmetic anymore.  Instead

>of learning how words and numbers really work at a fundamental level,
>people today only seem to learn how to press the buttons on their
>too-complicated electronic systems.  Word processors are more dumbed-down
>desktop publishing systems than word processors.  It's a sad state of
>affairs and I don't have any solid answers... only concerns.  But it's
>going to get a lot worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better.
>
>--
>Jeff Woods
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