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So funny word can be: porn movie instead portfolio, contract whores instead of contractions - when software texts, goes something wrong. Absurd suggestions readers have sent their programs. blogs ONLINE cases shows the funniest comedy of correction.

 

Mike Calcagno at Microsoft has a job with "real power", writes the Seattle Times. " Because Calcagno decides as manager of the Natural Language Group "ultimately about what words and proper names in the dictionaries in Microsoft's software and supplies which are not. The last name Obama, for example, knew the spelling checker for Microsoft Word is not until early 2007. And so with every word motzte Obama in a text, and presented a proposal absurd Correction: Osama.

A letter will be exchanged only - for the correct software is a Vertipper so close and the likelihood that the stored in the dictionary was meant Osama is in the program logic is very high. The meaning is, of course, a radically different, but that recognize only human. Because the difference was so striking, said Microsoft in 2007 dictionaries from Office 2003 and 2007 for Obama.

The German versions of Microsoft Word 2002 and Mac Word 2008, however, supply is still curious correction proposals for Barack Obama: Baroque, the U.S. president to say, the software.

About this correction comedy
ONLINE blogs reported. Readers sent the correction absurd suggestions that they auto-correction software in everyday life makes --
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Who on the Web these creative neologisms correction software will find many apparently hastily corrected by automatic full of great articles, as entirely unintentional comedy. Since then stands on one side, for example, association of this sentence: "Is work-life balance-something the company promotes, eg homo-office, flexible working hours, childcare facilities, etc."? That was certainly the home office, home office and called Word likes to "homo-office" corrected.

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Such errors linguists call the Cupertino effect. An old version of Microsoft Word word processor probably improved for a time in the English text input "cooperation" through "Cupertino" - the Californian city where Apple's headquarters sits. Even today there are hundreds of Cupertinos on the web pages of NATO, UN and EU documents, which actually quite sure of the cooperation speech should be.

The American linguist Benjamin room has researched this amazing error. He does not believe that people in the foreseeable future can stop the correction proposals of programs to examine the dictionaries and the software itself, where appropriate, add: "Despite the developments of Microsoft and other software providers can correct programs never be perfect." Especially great were the problems with proper names and foreign words. Rooms: After 11 September 2001, for example, adding Microsoft Office dictionary to Osama, and then no one could predict that Obama was once a major name would be. "

Ultimately, people always need the correction proposals of the software review, says Zimmer. Solo: "Unfortunately, we are always careful and not leave us too much on our technology." Thankfully, or else someone would have never been on the "villain inquiry" can laugh.

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