Whenever i glance over the shoulders of anyone on a computer in this place, i see red lines where they shouldn’t be.
Microsoft word telling people, “You’re wrong!”
“Neighbourhood House” gets a big red wiggly line.
Which for literacy students is frustrating, and for an anti-imperialist language purist like me is infuriating.
How hard is it for a tech department to set the default language to Local, ie Australian English??! Why should the tech department have to do it anyway.. microsoft knows everything about us, and we’ve told windows exactly where in the world the computer lives.
How hard is it for Word and Publisher to get this information automatically from Windoze??
Very very hard, it seems.
So how much more frustrating when i discover the same issue on my own computer.. and realise that i can’t even blame the tech department! It’s me who manages the errors on this machine.
Oops.
Now i genuinely can’t work out how to tell microsoft Publisher to set the default as Australian English.
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..and the other thing i hate (rant, rant, rant).. those green “grammar” lines. Some tech-head from microsoft telling our language and literacy students what good grammar is.
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Grrr.
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So how did your word processor irritate you today?