End of the semeser time...means lots of writing.
Basically, I'm sick and tired of Microsoft Word recognizing "English" last names like "Moore" and "Taylor" and "Brown", but telling me that my last name is spelled WRONG (my last name is Russian).
Honestly, what the hell? I don't care if Word doesn't recognize it, but stop offering me insulting alternate spellings. Aren't we a melting pot over here in America? I know you can teach the Word dictionary your name, and of course I have, but it just irks me that we (those of us with more ethnic last names) get red underlines. I demand a solution.
Microsoft Word practices ethno-biased-exclusionism
- December 16th, 2004
- Posted in War
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have just now realized dont know emily’s last name. she has always just been emily, from the days of yore when bil started talking about the cute girl at the ice cream shop.
Even if I told you what is, you’d never remember it for more than that split second.
i know it, and i know how to pronounce it. then again, i have several years of practice dealing with my obtrusively german last name.
yes, many people don’t know that “Laser” is actually german. thanks, i’ll be here all week.
I’ve got an ethnic last name too. The only way around it is to just right-click on it when the red line shows up, and Word will let you add it to the dictionary. That made me feel a little more like an American. . . .