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Old 04-20-2011, 08:38 AM
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patmas57
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LOL!! I've been a professional editor for over 20 years now, and I have to say that no spell checker will save you. I see so many wrong words even in printed books these days because spell check recognized it as a real word---it's just not the correct one. And forget about grammar checkers; grammar is apparently too complicated for any programmer to figure out how to account for everything. Maybe I'm just feeling a little underappreciated in my profession, but it seems that with that advent of email and the web plus cost-cutting measures at publishers, spelling and grammar are no longer as important as they used to be. Sigh. (BTW, I personally find spell checker annoying because I know many more words than it does!)
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