Powerpoint fun December 10, 2007
Posted by Geordie in General.trackback
Powerpoint doesn’t have the term “decoherence” in its native vocabulary. If you ask the spell-checker what it thinks you may have meant to type, it has one suggestion: lecherous.
Imagine what a sentence would look like if you actually did mean to type lecherous and somehow typed decoherence instead.
Incoherence seems to be the fitting word here, unless I meant “pervy”?
I see how they got lecherous, there’s a “her”, an “ec”, and an “o”. And the other letters are also on the keyboard, and there is a statistical chance that you had a small fit and typed in a real word, albeit one that isn’t in their dictionary.
This proves why people shouldn’t trust spell checkers, and why Microsoft needs some better algorithms.