Getting annoyed because the New Microsoft Word helpfully informs me to be more concise in my writing– constantly. I understand this would be helpful for scholarly and academic writing, but this is a book blog; I don’t need this computer sass. I need to be succinct in my writing for classes, I so I like using adjectives here. This is my blog I will use all of the fluffy, flowerful language I want, thank you very much Microsoft Word.
No.
P.S. I imagine there would be some way to turn this feature off but it will probably actually be helpful in a class context, and I am lazy, so….
Please let me know if you think this series is a good idea! Also, I’d love to hear some of your stories about the dangers of book blogging!
Have a lovely day!
Hahaha, imagine someone like H.P Lovecraft or William Shakespear dealing with Microsoft Word. 😀 “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
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*Shakespeare
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Lol, Lovecraft would probably go mad, it would probably suggest less archaic words constantly!
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That actually made me laugh. I didn’t know there’s a program that does it. I’m getting annoyed even by autocorrect, I can’t imagine something like that talking back at me. That’s vandalism, almost. It ruins the writer’s original style.
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I’m glad! I imagine it must be a fairly new update, as I downloaded the program from my school about a month ago!
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I had no idea this feature existed… I kinda hope I’ll stumble over it eventually. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of things to write in Word for uni, so it should be helpful! 🙂
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I had no idea either it just started happening one day!
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That is hilarious! I love me some adjectives as well! Word would probably blow up if I were to write up my reviews on that, I enjoy this series!💕
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I’m glad I’m not alone! And thank you so much!
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hahaha love this!!
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Thank you!
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Wow…computer sass. Sure am glad I never updated my Word.
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Lol I regret it slightly :p
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Hate when stuff like that happens.
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Ugh I feel your pain as my word program is always telling me not to use the passive voice. It should have informed the education minister of throat!
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It’s such a pain!
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I turned it off, it was very annoying, especially because I love using more words than less. Concise is not my thing. 😉
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I probably should too l!
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Ha, I have Grammarly, and it sometimes flags weird things like this and I’m just like, no, Grammarly, I wrote it the way I intended, okay?! Get off my back. Sheesh. xD
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I’m glad other people have ‘fights with their technology too! 🙂
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For grammatical advice, I use the “voices” in my head from past teachers (having actually paid attention in high school). I don’t need this in software form.
So get rid of Microsoft Word and use something else… or look at the options in that contextual menu it displayed which indicate that you can change the features of Word.
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😀 Used to have Grammarly extension and yes I loved it but yes it also drove me crazy at times. Like let me write how I wanna
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