The Rabbit I Pulled Out Of My Hat

July 1, 2008

why proofreading matters

Filed under: politics — Tags: , , , , — Paul Crittenden @ 2:17 pm

Auto-correct. It was my friend back in college when I was writing research papers. But apparently it’s no friend to the American Family Association. Seems that they use auto-correct on Associated Press articles in order to replace words that they deem unacceptable. For instance, they replace the word “gay” with the word “homosexual.” Why? I guess because they’re afraid of homosexuals being associated with being happy.

Of course, the word “gay” has more than one meaning. Which led to this.

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