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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 1127736" data-attributes="member: 871">Very true, but even software can fail.  A word processor's spell check will register "form" and "from" as correct spellings, even though the sentence should read "The orcs came from the caverns." but instead reads "The orcs came form the caverns."And, a grammar check can mess up, too.  It can try to force a verb tense change when the verb's tense is actually correct.  For example (for example's sake only--see note below), "The dwarf from the vast mountain ranges runs to the door."  A grammar checker may try to force a tense change from "runs" to "run," pairing up the verb "runs" with the plural object "mountain ranges" (from the preceding propositional phrase) rather than with the singular noun "dwarf."(BTW, I tested this with my word processor, & this specific example didn't work--checked out OK.  However, this is merely a simplified example: with sentences that have extremely complex or unique construction, &/or if the sentence uses atypical terminology, this becomes an issue.)I say this because I know the "joy" of being burned by relying on software tools for basic editing from time to time.  Find & replace doesn't always find & replace everything in the document; spell-checkers may flag every instance of an atypical name but miss a correctly-spelled mistake (ala form/from); and the grammar checker may skip over the use of a "from" when it should have actually been an "in" or a "of."Technology sure has made it easier for people to work on documents and correct them, but it sure has made it easier for people to screw up, too.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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