curious_guy (imported) wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:30 pm The grammar checker in Word Perfect thinks that "cum" is a foreign word for "with" and not a synonym for "orgasm" or "semen."

Personally I think the grammar checker is right in this case. As in summa cum laude for example. The ejaculate is actually 'come' because before it spurts out you can feel it coming. I challenge anyone here to think on that the next time he comes.

Kortpeel (imported) wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:51 pm Personally I think the grammar checker is right in this case. As in summa cum laude for example. The ejaculate is actually 'come' because before it spurts out you can feel it coming. I challenge anyone here to think on that the next time he comes.

That's all well and good...but to get back on-topic...did you fix your problem? You didn't answer any of the questions we asked...???

Both Word Perfect 12 and X3 say that I should change this:

He used wooden trusses with steel gussets to support the roof.

to this:

He used woodenly trusses with steel gussets to support the roof.

I am 99.99 percent sure that Word Perfect is incorrect. I hope that someone who has Open Office installed will tell me what it says about the above sentence.

curious_guy (imported) wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:03 am Both Word Perfect 12 and X3 say that I should change this:

He used wooden trusses with steel gussets to support the roof.

to this:

He used woodenly trusses with steel gussets to support the roof.

I am 99.99 percent sure that Word Perfect is incorrect. I hope that someone who has Open Office installed will tell me what it says about the above sentence.

MS Word 2010 had no issues with it that I could tell.

I don't use the grammar checkers in those programs.

I've (just now) tried downloading the grammar checking options for Open Office, and I am not impressed. They seem pretty pathetic, and can't keep up with my writing style.

The only thing they seem good for is recognizing extra spaces, and duplicated words. It didn't see any problem with what you had written.

I tried some gibberish sentences where I just wrote random words, and the grammar checkers for Open Office thought they were fine.

When it comes to grammar checking software, I've never found one that works. Sounds like the one in Word Perfect or MS Word is better.

I know I said the grammar checker was the same as in the Microsoft Office suite or MS Word. I didn't realize I wasn't using it.

There ARE several open source grammar checkers you can download for Open Office, but as of my experimentation today, I am not impressed. Sorry for confusing posts.

I still like Open Office, and find it a full featured program. As to a grammar checker, I retract what I said earlier.

Sorry about that.

curious_guy (imported) wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2012 7:03 am Both Word Perfect 12 and X3 say that I should change this:

He used wooden trusses with steel gussets to support the roof.

to this:

He used woodenly trusses with steel gussets to support the roof.

I am 99.99 percent sure that Word Perfect is incorrect. I hope that someone who has Open Office installed will tell me what it says about the above sentence.

WordPerfect X5 also "thinks" that wooden is meant as a modifier of the verb, "used," and so ought to be an adverb.

Only, with profound apologies to the artificial intelligence school, methinks (because I do think) that WordPerfect does not think.

I cannot yet imagine how to woodenly use anything.

Startrek? Go boldly? Boldly go?

Utter nonsense? Woodenly go? Go woodenly?

I suppose if I had a wooden leg, I wood or could woodenly go for a walk. (mis-spelling of "would" as "wood" was intentional, so was misspelling of mis-spelling)

Wolf-Pup (imported) wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:02 am That's all well and good...but to get back on-topic...did you fix your problem? You didn't answer any of the questions we asked...???

Thank you Wolf -Pup for getting me back on topic.

The problem is definitely nothing to do with the printer or the printer driver. It is something to do with either Word 2010 or Windows 7. Since my original posting I have noticed that it seems to always occur when a document is set to align on the right hand margin. When typing the home address of a letter head for example. With other documents it occurs only sometimes when the alignment is set to the left hand margin. Once it has happened the whole document will print out one character per line and I am unable to get rid of it.

I can get around it by issuing a print command after typing one line and seeing whether it going to do that. Word 2010 gives a Print pre-view picture on the screen of what it is going to print and the fault shows up even before the document gets to the printer. At least I can save paper that way, if not my irritation.

Kortpeel (imported) wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:51 pm Personally I think the grammar checker is right in this case. As in summa cum laude for example. The ejaculate is actually 'come' because before it spurts out you can feel it coming. I challenge anyone here to think on that the next time he comes.

The Japanese slang for ejaculate is "yuki," which means 'go.' It's also a synonym for 'snow,' leading to some interesting jokes and puns. I managed to use one of the puns in my most reprinted article – even reprinted in a college textbook so that students get to ponder "yuki" (in both meanings) falling from the sky.

janekane (imported) wrote: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:15 pm WordPerfect X5 also "thinks" that wooden is meant as a modifier of the verb, "used," and so ought to be an adverb.

Only, with profound apologies to the artificial intelligence school, methinks (because I do think) that WordPerfect does not think.

I cannot yet imagine how to woodenly use anything.

Startrek? Go boldly? Boldly go?

Utter nonsense? Woodenly go? Go woodenly?

I suppose if I had a wooden leg, I wood or could woodenly go for a walk. (mis-spelling of "would" as "wood" was intentional, so was misspelling of mis-spelling)

Delivering the same stilted message, Mitt Romney goes woodenly from primary to primary.