In Palinode's Palace: avast

Monday, July 11, 2005

avast

One of the unexpected pleasures of using Microshaft Word is having its grammar checker moronically attempt to correct nonsense sentences written in the passive voice. I just wrote "You have been boarded by the Dread Pirate Yes/No" on a set of interview questions I'm editing, and I've discovered that a single click of the mouse can transform that into "The Dread Pirate Yes/No has boarded you". The active voice of that sentence makes it sound infinitely more like you're getting shagged by Aristotle.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: As long as he doesn't have a microshaft.; 6:29 p.m.
palinode said...: Oh, you caught the smutty connations of that, hey?; 6:34 p.m.

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