Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Wronggly

Every morning, I arrive at school well-early, in order to both chill and psyche myself for the day to come. For at least ten years, part of my morning regimen has been playing the word games at the Merriam-Webster website (http://www.merriam-webster.com/game/index.htm). I am not unhappy that they have "monetized" the website with ads and even ad screens (keeping it free or me), but kind of irked with this banner ad they've been running recently:

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See the problem here? The so-called "grammar-checker" has not corrected a single grammar error in the text. The fact that there are no grammar errors to be corrected in the sample is hardly an excuse--how can I trust a "grammar checker" program that can't tell the difference between spelling and grammar? I doesn't.

In addition to the daily games at M-W.com, I highly recommend the daily game called Common Knowledge here: http://www.puzzability.com/cgi-bin/commonknowledge.pl

1 comment:

Tanner Brown said...

Speaking of words. Your word cloud is KICKING.