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its easy enough to program a word processor program to "auto correct" I18nand put down internationalization Really?? How cool!
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its easy enough to program a word processor program to "auto correct"
It's not really programming in any technical sense. In fact, the word processor is already programmed to do this, and the user is simply choosing to turn the function on or off. By default, Word does just this. (I've gotten pretty good at turning all these annoying features off in a little under ten minutes: auto-correct, auto-format, damned Clippy "help" animation, etc.)
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shibboleth
1382, the Heb. word shibboleth "flood, stream," also "ear of corn," in Judges xii:4-6. It was the password used by the Gileadites to distinguish their own men from fleeing Ephraimites, because Ephraimites could not pronounce the -sh- sound. Figurative sense of "watchword" is first recorded 1638, and it evolved by 1862 to "outmoded slogan still adhered to." A similar test-word was cicera "chick pease," used by the Italians to identify the French (who could not pronounce it correctly) during the massacre called the Sicilian Vespers (1282). online etymology dictionary
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the word processor is already programmed to do this Ah. As might be expected, I just have what my computer came with: Microsoft Works (not Word), and I have yet to get it to do one single thing I've wanted it to do. So--I know pretty much nothing about word processing except that it's boustrophedonic. (  I LOVE that word!!) At least, the ones at my former office were.
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Yeah there is a good bit of stuff to be deactivated before I find MSW to be bearable.
To change the auto-correct feature go to Tools on the menu bar, left click and then select AutoCorrect Options... from the menu that appears. The cursor will be flashing in the field "Replace:" for you to enter the keystrokes you want to use. Then hit the tab key or click on the field labelled "With:" to enter the full text that you want to be associated with your shorthand.
If you have already typed something out and copied it to your clipboard before going to the menu as above, then the second field will already contain that word as a default. This can be helpful when you are using autocorrect to do formatting stuff like subscript or superscript. For example if I want the computer to always give H2O a subscript 2, then I go to the trouble of doing it myself once, then selecting the word, and then entering plain old H2O into the first field. Note that the radio button for "formatted text" must be selected rather than the "plain text" button for this feature to work. I think it will default to that if you've copied formatted text but sometimes you have to do it manually.
If you want to make it stop autocorrecting a word, such as teh, you enter teh and then just click on the button marked "delete." Then it will no longer correct teh and you can wax poetic about your favorite teas.
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I know pretty much nothing about word processing except that it's boustrophedonic.
It is? How? I've heard people describe old dot-matrix printers as boustrophedonic, but never a word processor.
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It is? How? I don't know. We recorded our entries, which were transcribed by the folks in the secretarial pool (sorry, don't know the PC term for that), one of whom told me that their word processors produced the typing that way. Maybe she was pulling my leg, but I seem to recall visiting the pool to observe this wonder. Seems as though there was, in place of where the keys on a typewriter would have been, a central ball that turned according to whatever character had been hit on the keyboard. Possibly this was some other type of machine, but they called them word processors. This was in the late 70's -- early '80's.
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it must have been stored in some sort of memory before it actually printed.
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Ah, word processor as a dedicated machine (cf. my mention of dot-matrix print heads) would make sense, but when I hear "word processor" these days I think of a piece of software.
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