{"id":608,"date":"2007-08-30T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T22:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2008-06-21T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T05:23:06","slug":"is-it-just-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Is It Just Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be honest now: tell me if you think this is a little, well, <em>odd<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m spell-checking the latest version of our Fall catalog from within <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/indesign\/\">Adobe InDesign<\/a>\u2014my favorite DTP tool since version 1.5, because the people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quark.com\/\">Quark<\/a> are pig-nosed ass-brained dorkmasters of the purest ray serene\u2014when the word &#8220;fettucine&#8221; gets flagged.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m used to a lot of words I use in our catalog not existing in the standard InDesign dictionary; Lentinula, Ganoderma, mycoremediation, et cetera. Just par for the course when you work for a mycologist. But fettucine? I double-checked the spelling online and everything seemed kosher. (Kosher fettucine? Guess it&#8217;s not for pasta carbonara then.) So I added it to the custom dictionary with all the other weird words I use every day.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the odd part.<\/p>\n<p>The odd part came when, searching its internal database of words for an acceptable alternative, it suggested &#8220;feticide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Had to bang my head on the desk a few times to get my brain to pivot back right-way &#8217;round after that. If you&#8217;re wondering why, try rolling the phrase, &#8220;Feticide Alfredo&#8221; around on your tongue for a while. \ud83d\ude2f <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be honest now: tell me if you think this is a little, well, odd. So I&#8217;m spell-checking the latest version of our Fall catalog from within Adobe InDesign\u2014my favorite DTP tool since version 1.5, because the people at Quark are pig-nosed ass-brained dorkmasters of the purest ray serene\u2014when the word &#8220;fettucine&#8221; gets flagged. I&#8217;m used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}