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Subject:Re: MS will help us find the right words? From:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:35:04 -0500
Edgar D' Souza wrote:
> 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 :-)
The article suggests that the actual Cupertino version of the effect is
antique, and that modern spell checkers are better. But see http://www.amcm2008.p.lodz.pl/index.php?show=about_lodz where
international Cupertino was in full force (in a terribly edited piece
about Lodz, Poland) just last year. Lodz itself suffers from its own
effect--the name is spelled ?ódz' but pronounced in some other way,
accessible only to speakers of Polish.
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