RE: dangers of spellcheck

Subject: RE: dangers of spellcheck
From: "Suzanne Chiles" <suzchiles -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "'Susan Hogarth'" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:07:39 -0800

A former manager of mine, at Microsoft no less, almost let this get through
as she was sending an email to HER manager, relying on the spellchecker
which didn't catch

Warm Retards instead of Warm Regards

Suzanne

> Bad enough. But not as bad as this one I (thank heavens!)
> caught myself:
>
> 'asses' for assess'
>
> Any other ridculous boffos that overdependence on spell-check
> scanning rather than actually reading can net you?

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