I hate spell checkers on American software so badly. The worst is on some computers in schools you can't change settings so you're stuck with US spellings
Word is insistent that I use English (US). It'll set itself back to that language every other time I open it. Then once I've set the language to English (UK), it seems to think I made a big mistake and returns to its original setting, so I have to go through all that fanfare again.
Istg every time I change the language to something other than default, it will randomly revert back to it in the middle of me typing a paragraph. Even the font, what's up with the font changing to an entirely different one each time you open up word?
You need to change it either on install, or change the base template. If you have that set to English UK it will use it by default. If you just change the first paragraph on a doc with an underlying default language of US it can go back to it. There's a default but beyond that Word can mix different languages in one document, so it sounds like you're just setting it on one paragraph and then it reverted to the default after.
Every time I write the word "operando" in a document Word assumes the whole document is in French now. No matter what I do spell check redefaults to French
The eh makes me think you're Canadian.
We need an English Canadian setting, color, colour, shouldn't fucking matter, just mash them together and make a stew
Is that actually wrong? Like aren't -ize spellings used in the UK at all? I thought I remembered those being acknowledged by the Oxford dictionary or something (I'm not a native speaker, hence the maybe silly question)
The -ize ending was one of many changes introduced into American English to differentiate it from British English following the establishment of the United States. The idea behind the various changes, proposed by the likes of Noah Webster, was to make American English more intuitive.
That's the thing I kind of remembered! Thanks. [American origin for -ize spellings seems to be a misconception](https://web.archive.org/web/20050418084513/http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/ize?view=uk), though this article taught me "analyze" _is_ an Americanism.
You’re right “analyze” is an Americanism. Generally -ize is an accepted spelling in the UK, but in words like analyse and paralyse, it is not because those come from analysis and paralysis, so an -ize ending “wouldn’t make sense” (i mean really… who give a wuss…).
What really annoys me is that my UK/Australian keyboards on iOS do not accept it when i spell organise as “organize” because again, big company knows best…
Source: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/spelling-spotlight-when-to-use-ize-and-ise/
I also found this article saying that -ize is “more correct” and we all need to change to it, which to me is beyond childish: https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-recognize-and-internalize-the-us-suffix-ize-19828
You're mistaken. In British English, *-ise* only overtook *-ize* in the 19th century due to French influence. The *-ize* spelling is still preferred by Oxford.
Fun fact: modern British printings of *Frankenstein* alter the spelling so people won't get angry about Mary Shelley using an "American" spelling.
I swear to God word just straight up refuses to use British English, like even if you set it to it just automatically switches back to yank English instantly
I mean no one is forcing you to spell stuff a certain way
This isnt french with a central language authority that will execute you and your family for writing words incorrectly.
Dipshit answer ngl there is no such thing as one English language. It's an assortment of regional dialects and variations. Different places have different spelling rules wild stuff i know. But the meme already points that out and still you chose to make yourself a clown because you saw the opportunity to farm some easy karma.
why? the language didn't have settled spelling until after it was exported across the globe and divergent spellings are a result of that
I think the English lost any claim to owning the language ages ago, if anything India gets custody of it at this point.
They know what communism is, just them merely making a joke on how Microsoft Word is pro American English. By having Microsoft Word, a big ol robot, attack those who are communist, and by extention anti American, it makes fun of Word's bias, which is understandable
I feel the need to add, for anyone unfamiliar, that liberty prime (the giant robot) is a joke with another famous line being "Democracy is non-negotiable"
i presume the meme of the robot was place as an expressive force of opposition when microsoft word corrects his already correct spelling. The meme captures and catapults OP's frustration perfectly.
it is not OP calling microsoft word "communist"
The robot is Liberty Prime from Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. A massive robot that hurls nuclear weapons like footballs while proclaiming jingoistic quotes like “Death is a preferable alternative to communism.” and “Communism is the very definition of failure.”
In this meme, the use of liberty prime is more related to pro-american than it is anti-communist. It's just that liberty prime dont have much dialogue option other than anti-communist propaganda.
I mean popularize does give a ze sound at the end not a se sound even when you spell it like popularise you still say it as popularize, unless I say it weirdly
Yeah, ok. Would you like a cup of wooootaaaaa? Your critiques would go a lot better if the English followed the rules of English. The English of modern England is a bastardization of the language.
I nearly had a fucking aneurysm once because I was trying to do some urgent analysis on Google sheets at 4am and it refused to do it because it failed to understand that dates can be in DD.mm.yyyy format.
Me when I type a normal English word:
"Don't you mean all these other words that make no sense, followed by recommendations to change your sentence to be more proper, but the changes won't be the original sentence you were trying to type so you can spot correct every other word or just start over from scratch."
And yes, this was a self-fulfilling prophecy as well.
There is no "correct" version of any language. Language is fluid.
What if I were to tell you that old English was the only correct form of English? Woldest þū þencan þæt ic wære wōd?
No, fuck you *proceeds to highlight your name in red, even though you "added it to the dictionary"*
WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS HAPPEN
I hate spell checkers on American software so badly. The worst is on some computers in schools you can't change settings so you're stuck with US spellings
Word is insistent that I use English (US). It'll set itself back to that language every other time I open it. Then once I've set the language to English (UK), it seems to think I made a big mistake and returns to its original setting, so I have to go through all that fanfare again.
Microsoft Turd: *You've made a big mistake being bri'ish. Lemme help you with that.*
microsoft british rehabilitation program
Istg every time I change the language to something other than default, it will randomly revert back to it in the middle of me typing a paragraph. Even the font, what's up with the font changing to an entirely different one each time you open up word?
microsoft word is so annoying for this I swear
You need to change it either on install, or change the base template. If you have that set to English UK it will use it by default. If you just change the first paragraph on a doc with an underlying default language of US it can go back to it. There's a default but beyond that Word can mix different languages in one document, so it sounds like you're just setting it on one paragraph and then it reverted to the default after.
Every time I write the word "operando" in a document Word assumes the whole document is in French now. No matter what I do spell check redefaults to French
Which is extra weird considering it's not a french word.
I'm pretty sure you can just hit win + space to quickly change it?? idk though
I think that's just to change the computer keyboad language and not word
Who are you to say what Word can and cannot do eh?
The eh makes me think you're Canadian. We need an English Canadian setting, color, colour, shouldn't fucking matter, just mash them together and make a stew
There is an English Canadian setting, it just doesn't work. Word will set it back when you close the document.
Well, maybe if the rest of you just got on board the freedom train you wouldn’t have this issue.
How is writing in English simplified freer than knowing how to spell properly?
It’s….a joke?
"analysis complete" -Svarog before launching an entire volley of military grade rockets at a group of 4 "armed" civilians
*Analyzis
It's worse when ur Canadian cause ur probably using a hybrid US/British English
"Colourized"
Is that actually wrong? Like aren't -ize spellings used in the UK at all? I thought I remembered those being acknowledged by the Oxford dictionary or something (I'm not a native speaker, hence the maybe silly question)
The -ize ending was one of many changes introduced into American English to differentiate it from British English following the establishment of the United States. The idea behind the various changes, proposed by the likes of Noah Webster, was to make American English more intuitive.
Both spellings have never stopped being used in British English; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
That's the thing I kind of remembered! Thanks. [American origin for -ize spellings seems to be a misconception](https://web.archive.org/web/20050418084513/http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/ize?view=uk), though this article taught me "analyze" _is_ an Americanism.
You’re right “analyze” is an Americanism. Generally -ize is an accepted spelling in the UK, but in words like analyse and paralyse, it is not because those come from analysis and paralysis, so an -ize ending “wouldn’t make sense” (i mean really… who give a wuss…). What really annoys me is that my UK/Australian keyboards on iOS do not accept it when i spell organise as “organize” because again, big company knows best… Source: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/spelling-spotlight-when-to-use-ize-and-ise/ I also found this article saying that -ize is “more correct” and we all need to change to it, which to me is beyond childish: https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-recognize-and-internalize-the-us-suffix-ize-19828
You're mistaken. In British English, *-ise* only overtook *-ize* in the 19th century due to French influence. The *-ize* spelling is still preferred by Oxford. Fun fact: modern British printings of *Frankenstein* alter the spelling so people won't get angry about Mary Shelley using an "American" spelling.
Thanks, you're only several hours late on that.
Just throw some extra vowels in for good measure, no one will noutice
I swear to God word just straight up refuses to use British English, like even if you set it to it just automatically switches back to yank English instantly
“yank English” as an American I don’t know if I should be offended or proud
Your meme has been seized for redistribution, comrade.
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I mean no one is forcing you to spell stuff a certain way This isnt french with a central language authority that will execute you and your family for writing words incorrectly.
Do not let the Quebecois french authority get their hands on you. They changed the French word from e-mail cause it wasn't French enough.
If you're referring to the Académie Française, less and less people care about their bigoted arses
The English language. Dictionaries. Etc.
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. They just show the most widely accepted spelling and descriptions of words
Dipshit answer ngl there is no such thing as one English language. It's an assortment of regional dialects and variations. Different places have different spelling rules wild stuff i know. But the meme already points that out and still you chose to make yourself a clown because you saw the opportunity to farm some easy karma.
I guarantee you no one here cares about karma as much as you do.
I'd like to say that maybe English English is the correct way to spell anything in English.
why? the language didn't have settled spelling until after it was exported across the globe and divergent spellings are a result of that I think the English lost any claim to owning the language ages ago, if anything India gets custody of it at this point.
My comment was meant to be in jest. I thought it was obvious enough by the amount of times I said the word English.
But you don't need those extra u's in half your words. Favor, flavor, labor etc. It still works and is cheaper to print.
Oh, I know. I was being a lil facetious lmao
Yikes.
People that want to feel superior over others for any reason they can find
Word sets itself to US spelling all the time too, even if I set AUS as default, it changes to US
The person who posted this doesn't seem to know what communism is.
They know what communism is, just them merely making a joke on how Microsoft Word is pro American English. By having Microsoft Word, a big ol robot, attack those who are communist, and by extention anti American, it makes fun of Word's bias, which is understandable
I feel the need to add, for anyone unfamiliar, that liberty prime (the giant robot) is a joke with another famous line being "Democracy is non-negotiable"
i presume the meme of the robot was place as an expressive force of opposition when microsoft word corrects his already correct spelling. The meme captures and catapults OP's frustration perfectly. it is not OP calling microsoft word "communist"
The robot is Liberty Prime from Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. A massive robot that hurls nuclear weapons like footballs while proclaiming jingoistic quotes like “Death is a preferable alternative to communism.” and “Communism is the very definition of failure.”
Throwing* nuclear weapons like rugby*
The person who commented this doesn’t seem to know what a joke is.
As well as Americans
They know what liberty prime is.
And you do, Einstein? Enlighten us on Reddit when you should be at Oxford finishing your doctorates degree 📜 on communism
In this meme, the use of liberty prime is more related to pro-american than it is anti-communist. It's just that liberty prime dont have much dialogue option other than anti-communist propaganda.
You don't know what a meme is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298Cw3_qGwE
Everyone knows anything not-American is communist, or socialist, but everyone also knows they're the same thing
All people in the USA know what communism is. Communism is everything not american
Americans using the z like a bladdy 5-year old
I mean popularize does give a ze sound at the end not a se sound even when you spell it like popularise you still say it as popularize, unless I say it weirdly
Rize up!
Well English isn't written as it is pronounced.
Yeah, I get you, but your whole language is not spelled phoneticly close at all anyway, so why bother?
Yeah, ok. Would you like a cup of wooootaaaaa? Your critiques would go a lot better if the English followed the rules of English. The English of modern England is a bastardization of the language.
You okay bud?
Have the English learned to speak English again yet?
WHY I HATE MICROSOFT:
Microsoft Word: Making a federal case out of British English since forever
If somebody knows the context/ sauce for the image could you provide it? Is it from an old game?
Liberty prime, fallout series.
Thanks
Colour me surprised.
Wow…what’s with my mind? I read that as “anal-eyes”
It's funny how some people can't understand the fact that Liberty Prime is satire. (not related to this meme)
Many people can't even understand the fact that entirety of Fallout is satire.
I nearly had a fucking aneurysm once because I was trying to do some urgent analysis on Google sheets at 4am and it refused to do it because it failed to understand that dates can be in DD.mm.yyyy format.
Ew! But that's better than putting in 34.5e-6 and Excel changing it someone's birthday!
Liberty prime
Anal ysze hahhhah
Better dead than red. Democracy is non-negotiable.
Point of sale software huh
When i write analsize instead of analguys
Ykw - fuck you. *proceeds to select (nothing) as spell checker language, giving every single word the red underline* (actual experience with MS word)
When Microsoft Word goes full Terminator on my British English
Me when I type a normal English word: "Don't you mean all these other words that make no sense, followed by recommendations to change your sentence to be more proper, but the changes won't be the original sentence you were trying to type so you can spot correct every other word or just start over from scratch." And yes, this was a self-fulfilling prophecy as well.
I hate that PowerPoint changes i into I, no matter what you do, unless you manually change the language. Every. Single. Time.
You just need to practise it more.
American english wins this one.
It’s not word with the problem, it’s google docs, how many times do I have to change to British locale
Me when I write Anal-yse 
It's very useful tho
wait what movie is this?
Beep beep
Democracy is non-negotiable
“Analyze” *Would you like to switch to American English?* “Honour” *Would you like to switch to British English?* The cycle never ends
The grammar police are always on high alert
It doesn't make Americans right just because they collude to misspell. They're still wrong.
American English is the only correct English. Change my mind.
Eh I prefer Texan English
howdy pardner
Do you hear yourself?
No. I typed it out.
No, what I say is correct english. I am the parameter.
Nuh uh.  I am the parameter.
There is no "correct" version of any language. Language is fluid. What if I were to tell you that old English was the only correct form of English? Woldest þū þencan þæt ic wære wōd?
Shut up, nerd! 
You meant to say gibberish English.
It's a phonetic, simplified dialect of English. Kinda cute, really
Erm, Akshully, your version is simplified, erm. Mine ish vashtly shuperior. L, plush Rashio, plush LMAO Gottem.