I'm being oppressed!

[alixtii]

Open Office is biased against academics! It's refusing to recognize "problematize" as a word.

(Yes, I use that word a lot. It's because it's an incredibly useful concept.)

*adds to dictionary*

Comments

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

All the programs are! We used to have fun back in the 80s typing in swathes of DH Lawrence of Faulkner into the clunky grammar/style programs of the day and watching them go crazy trying to edit.

They're all based on Business English!

(I add LOTS to mah dictionaries!)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

But who are the these Business English people to force their experience on me in this manor? To make a claim to represent me when they clearly don't even speak the same language? The horror! The oppression! Designing a piece of software I didn't pay for in such a way as to not perfectly meet my every need! The arrogance!

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

Um, I actually don't know this program, but I know that The Powers That Be have been against academics ever since Word Perfect which was perfect for footnotes disappeared into the gaping maw of Word.

*broods darkly over the Injustice of it All*

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

If Open Office only billed itself as for business people, then that'd be okay. It's the claim it's for everybody that makes it clear it's part of some insidious anti-academic conspiracy.

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

*oops* see above.

I got my comments mixed up.

No doubt it is the conspirarcy yet again trying to Thwart Us!

[youngest-one.livejournal.com]

Problemawha?

[rushin-doll.livejournal.com]

I'm enough of a dork that as soon as I saw this entry I had to open MS Word to see if the same problem was to found there.

Sadly, Microsoft also does not believe that your "problematize" is a word.

Quick! We should write angry letters about this oppression!

Just... not in Word or OpenOffice...