Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Don't Trust the Squiggly Lines on Microsoft Word

While writing a client report, Microsoft Word told me that my grammar was incorrect. Confused, I right clicked to find out more and this is what I saw (sorry if the image is small):


They is?!? Really Microsoft Word? Really?!? When, in the English language, can the phrase "they is" be used? The answer is NEVER!

3 comments:

Stefanie said...

This happened to me today. I forget what the sentence was but I felt the same way and left my doc the way I had it...

OhMyHeart said...

Hahahah this is just good proof that human beings still know a litttllle bit more nuanced pieces of information than computers. Sigh of relief for me!
-@EmmaJoan

Dmbosstone said...

I am very dependent on spell check- and I love that firefox and other programs are including these features, cause I can't spell for the life of me.

When it comes to grammar I'd probably do whatever Word tells me to- so I'd probably say "they is."