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#91262 01/08/03 03:54 PM
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I need a word, y'all. It can be either an adjective or a noun/allusion.

I'm firing off an angry E-mail to the editor of our local newspaper. I'm fed up with the typos, not particularly those in the copy (every newspaper commits typos), but the almost-daily ones in the headlines!! Some of these are obviously spell-check generated, and I want to point that out and add that spell check is _____? The word/phrase I want means something that looks innocent or helpful or the surface, but deep down is/can be just the opposite.


#91263 01/08/03 03:58 PM
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meretricious


#91264 01/08/03 04:06 PM
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A slippery slope

A snare and a delusion

Fatally flawed

Simplistic

Unthinking robotic moron (any combination)




#91265 01/08/03 04:14 PM
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Not an answer but maybe a guide to thinking about this question:

"The pertiest little desert flower'll slip a knife in you if don't watch out."


#91266 01/08/03 04:14 PM
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insidiously inaccurate?


#91267 01/08/03 04:19 PM
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Spell checker = error compounder


#91268 01/08/03 05:04 PM
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spell check is _____?

perfidious to her own art
A deceptive Janus
A steganographic challenge



#91269 01/09/03 01:35 AM
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Nefarious? Not really accurate for your intent, but kinda appropriate, especially considering the type of spell checker we have here.

Deceptive?
Unreliable?
Illusory?

Just a few ideas for you.


#91270 01/09/03 01:41 AM
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specious?
" Some [serpent(ine spellchecker)s] specious and beautiful to the eye.
--Bp.
Richardson."


#91271 01/09/03 01:47 AM
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'...that spell check is _____ merely suggesting an alternative which may be neither accurate nor correct.

(Why use one word when 11 will suffice!!)

stales


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