Re: MS will help us find the right words?

["Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Jerry Kindall <j -dot- kindall -at- tecplot -dot- com> wrote:
>> It is a cultural situation, where an incomplete understanding or a
>> complete laziness take over from actual grammar and spelling, and it
>> accounts, as we all know, for those documents with crazy substitions
> of
>> wrong words that even Mrs. Malaprop could never make.
>
> BTW, this is known as the Cupertino effect:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect

Cool! That's a neat bit of trivia (if that is the right word) to learn :-)

Thanks,
Ed.
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