The mysteries of paintballing

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/30/2006 08:52 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>Yes, this looks like a spellchecker artifact. Most likely the
>misspelling was "dentified" -- MS Word suggests "identified",
>"dandified", and "denitrified". Another word processing program might
>rank "denitrified" first.
>
>By the way, this has been dubbed "the Cupertino effect" by European
>Union translators:
>
>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002911.html

Amusing; thanks, Ben.  So, remembering the earlier "orthodentist"
discussion, I tried Word on "orthodentist" and
"orthodentify|fied".  Quel disappointment.

Joel

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