Microsoft Word is a racist program

[dutch508]

XemaSab  (1000+ posts)       Thu Aug-28-08 04:37 PM
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Microsoft Word is a racist program
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8058474

I deal with a lot of Latin names at work.

Microsoft ALWAYS wants to capitalize canadensis and americana, even when they're NOT supposed to be capitalized.

mexicana?

NEVER gets automatically capitalized.

 
OMG. 

Kutjara  (1000+ posts)       Thu Aug-28-08 04:41 PM
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3. LOL! It's also homophobic.
 At least the Spanish-language version a couple of years ago was. If you looked-up the word "homosexual" in the built-in thesaurus, the suggested synonyms were along the lines of "deviant," "pervert," "molester." Lovely, eh?

Fortunately, that got changed pretty quickly after the news got out.

bob_weaver (1000+ posts)      Thu Aug-28-08 05:21 PM
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11. At one point they had "Indian" and "savage" as synonyms in their thesaurus.
 After that was publicized they took it out.

soon, all the 'bad' words will be removed...

[Happy Fun Ball]

Maybe they'll be happier with this:

[Vagabond]

soon, all the 'bad' words will be removed...

I do believe you means ungood?