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[felis_ultharus]

Microsoft Word just underlined the word "antiemetics" in my novel. It's a real word -- it means "pills that prevent vomiting" -- but Word is suggesting "ant emetics." I believe that would mean "something that makes an ant vomit."

I don't know what the sick folk down at Microsoft get up to in their spare time, but I could do without all the ant vomit, thank you very much.

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[sugar-spun.livejournal.com]

Maybe they think it should have a hyphen?

I had terrible trouble when writing an essay on Eastern Philosophy. There's a writer I was referencing whose name is Asma, and Word kept changing it to Asthma no matter how often I told it not to. In the end I made it As Ma and made a note in the bibliography.

*kicks Word*

[seal7.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, did you try switching automatic correction off altogether?

[sugar-spun.livejournal.com]

It was a college computer (in the days before I had a laptop) and I halfway think that was Admin Access Only. I do remember that everyone in my class had the same problem, and most people just left a space and wrote in the man's name. Except for the guy doing dual-major Mathematics and Philosophy, who was computer literate enough to make a jpeg out of the name Asma and paste it in.

[seal7.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I see. That's really amusing though if the entire class had the same problem :) Very nice lol-story. I hope the prof was at least a tiny bit amused.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Mine suggests hyphens, if applicable.

Beisdes, they didn't want anti-emetics or anti emetics -- ant emetics was the sole suggestion.