spell-checker mischief

[Dennis R. Preston]

YES, I SENT A MESSAGE TPO RALPH FASOLD ONCE WHICH SUGGESTED HE WAS "FIZZLED."
Damn things!

dInIs

>In a message dated 11/24/2000 6:46:57 AM, lynnem at COGS.SUSX.AC.UK writes:
>
><< I'd had a
>suspicion that Bolinger would have tackled this.
>
>Ron said:
>>
>>The irony of the second part of the sentence is based upon the disambiguation
>>of SOMEBODY in approximately the sense that Bologna suggests >>
>
>Hee-hee: Tom P was right! Look what my AOL spell-checker did to "Bolinger"!
>Not quite as bad as what it wants to do with Fromkin and Rodman (reported
>here some time ago, i.e., AOL suggests that "Fromkin" be changed to
>:Foreskin").


Dennis R. Preston
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