Friday, November 06, 2009
They just don't have the same ring
I was working on a piece of writing in which I refer to Mary as "Our Lady." I hit the "proofread" option in Pages and it kindly offered the following possible alternatives:
Our Woman
Our Person
Our Individual
Huh.
Somehow, Our Individual of Guadalupe just doesn't do it for me.
Our Woman
Our Person
Our Individual
Huh.
Somehow, Our Individual of Guadalupe just doesn't do it for me.
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2 comments:
I had a program like that years ago. If you typed 'husband' it wanted 'partner' or if you typed 'girl' it wanted 'young woman' and so on. I remembered my mother saying Cardinal Newman was about the finest writer in the English language so I gave it a couple of paras from the Idea of a University and I wish to this day that I had kept what it produced. It was unrecognisable. I suspect a lot of people must actually go with the suggestions of those programs though - it would certainly explain so much of the heavy bland prose going around.
Too funny!!
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