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.
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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