maineman
Banned
By now, most folks on here are aware that earlier in the week, Dixie jumped all over a member for using the word "repudiate". Dixie put on his self righteous word nazi hat (I actually think it is sewn to his scalp) and told that posted that "the word is REFUDIATE, not REPUDIATE" Refudiate, of course, is not a word in the english language.
I think by now, most folks are also aware that Dixie then claimed that he, of course KNEW that REFUDIATE was not a word, but that his Google spellchecker had indicated that it was so he went with it only because of that. See...it was not Dixie's fault that he castigated someone for using a correct word and went so far as to suggest a non-word as a more approprate replacement...it was Google Spellchecker's fault.
Dixie even went so far as to say :
Who thinks 'refudiate' is a word?
...I mean, besides Google spellcheck?"
Well... that didn't seem right to me. Why would a sharp successful company like google have a fucked up online spellchecker that did not know what were words and what were not words?
As it turns out, I have google spellcheck on my desktop. I would imagine that many of you do as well... so I tried it out.
do a little test for me: cut and paste the following list of words and drop them into the quick reply text box at the bottom of the page and then run google spellcheck.
refudiate
repudiate
stupid
stoopid
trailer trash
redneck
racist
slanderous
lying
unethical
cowardly
chickenhawk
motherfucker
what words are shown in RED as misspelled?
I think by now, most folks are also aware that Dixie then claimed that he, of course KNEW that REFUDIATE was not a word, but that his Google spellchecker had indicated that it was so he went with it only because of that. See...it was not Dixie's fault that he castigated someone for using a correct word and went so far as to suggest a non-word as a more approprate replacement...it was Google Spellchecker's fault.
Dixie even went so far as to say :
Who thinks 'refudiate' is a word?
...I mean, besides Google spellcheck?"
Well... that didn't seem right to me. Why would a sharp successful company like google have a fucked up online spellchecker that did not know what were words and what were not words?
As it turns out, I have google spellcheck on my desktop. I would imagine that many of you do as well... so I tried it out.
do a little test for me: cut and paste the following list of words and drop them into the quick reply text box at the bottom of the page and then run google spellcheck.
refudiate
repudiate
stupid
stoopid
trailer trash
redneck
racist
slanderous
lying
unethical
cowardly
chickenhawk
motherfucker
what words are shown in RED as misspelled?