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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:44:09 -0800
From: "URL J. von Palokangas" <noma...@hotmail.com>
To: Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
Subject: RE: Open Office
"More common plural"? That is incorrect for the following reasons:
1. Criteria is slang
2. Criteria does not indicate singular or plural
Further, I have two degrees, and I am a very good writer. What would you call
a "classical education"?
a. College degree?
b: High school diploma?
c. High school dropout?
It is obvious you would prefer slang rather than common English; further, it is
obvious you are not going to
change your programming even though it uses slang.
Earl J. Kangas
from the
People's Socialist Republic of California
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:44:56 +0000
> From: ofarr...@iol.ie
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> CC: noma...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Open Office
>
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 01:39:40 -0800
> "URL J. von Palokangas" <noma...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been using Apache Open Office Writer for about a month, and I have a
> > gripe and
> > a suggestion:
> >
> > GRIPE:
> > Open Office uses the incorrect slang term "Criteria" in its spell check and
> > in a couple of places in the
> > program itself. Look in the dictionary: The correct word is CRITERION
> > for a single requirement,
> > and the correct word for more than one requirement is CRITERIONS. It
> > really irritates me when
> > I'm writing a report or letter, and I use the correct word Criterion or
> > Criterions, and the spellcheck
> > marks it as an error. If you can't repair this, then I'm moving to a
> > different word processor.
>
>
> My sources suggest that CRITERIA is the more common plural (and this usually
> sits easier with those who have had a classical education); however, you can
> add your preferred spellings to a Custom dictionary, under /Tools /Options
> /Language settings /Languages /Writing aids.
>
>
> (Path from /Options is under Preferences on a mac)
>
> >
> > SUGGESTION:
> > Whenever I close a document, the program takes me back to the Open Office
> > program selection
> > menu. Why not do what MS Word does - just close the file and keep the
> > program running so I
> > can open a new file immediately instead of going out of the program and
> > then selecting it again
> > to continue working with another file.
> >
> >
> > Earl J. Kangas
> > from the
> > People's Socialist Republic of California
> >
>
> --
> Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
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Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie>
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