Comments on: Situatedness http://josh.st/2009/10/12/situatedness/ Web, English, 中国, and various geekosity Sat, 05 May 2012 03:55:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sat http://josh.st/2009/10/12/situatedness/#comment-326513 sat Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:12:55 +0000 http://josh.st/2009/10/12/situatedness/#comment-326513 Come to think of it, what’s actu­ally annoy­ing is the severe lim­i­ta­tions of the Word dic­tio­nary. Surely it’s not that dif­fi­cult to make a dic­tio­nary, that rather than a giant look-up list (as it appears to be) applies rules. Thus, it would know that ‘ness’ is a legit­i­mate suf­fix to ‘sit­u­ated’, and not have the stu­pid red squig­gle under it. Come to think of it, what’s actu­ally annoy­ing is the severe lim­i­ta­tions of the Word dic­tio­nary. Surely it’s not that dif­fi­cult to make a dic­tio­nary, that rather than a giant look-up list (as it appears to be) applies rules. Thus, it would know that ‘ness’ is a legit­i­mate suf­fix to ‘sit­u­ated’, and not have the stu­pid red squig­gle under it.

]]> By: Black Yoshi http://josh.st/2009/10/12/situatedness/#comment-321049 Black Yoshi Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:48:42 +0000 http://josh.st/2009/10/12/situatedness/#comment-321049 'Situatedness' is not a made up word. It's an uncommon, legitimate extension of the word 'situated'. Actually making up words, I'm prepared to bet, is rather rare? As for uncommon extensions, I make them all the time. Sometimes to be deliberately annoying, but mostly because I'm writing something and it just seems to be the most appropriate word... Come to think of it, what's actually annoying is the severe limitations of the Word dictionary. Surely it's not that difficult to make a dictionary, that rather than a giant look-up list (as it appears to be) applies rules. Thus, it would know that 'ness' is a legitimate suffix to 'situated', and not have the stupid red squiggle under it. ‘Situatedness’ is not a made up word. It’s an uncommon, legitimate extension of the word ‘situated’. Actually making up words, I’m prepared to bet, is rather rare? As for uncommon extensions, I make them all the time. Sometimes to be deliberately annoying, but mostly because I’m writing something and it just seems to be the most appropriate word…

Come to think of it, what’s actually annoying is the severe limitations of the Word dictionary. Surely it’s not that difficult to make a dictionary, that rather than a giant look-up list (as it appears to be) applies rules. Thus, it would know that ‘ness’ is a legitimate suffix to ‘situated’, and not have the stupid red squiggle under it.

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