Date:    Tue, 31 Mar 1998 12:08:27 -0500
<br>From:    Larry Horn  laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: THIS X SUCKS and fellatio
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<br>At 11:42 AM -0500 3/31/98, RonButters wrote (inter alia):
<br> ...
<br> PS: My spell-checker just asked me if I would like to add "cocksucker" and
<br> "fellatio" to the dictionary. AOL is sooo prudish!
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<br>On the other hand, I discovered by chance a couple of years ago that if you
<br>sic the spell-check installed on Microsoft Word 4 on an Italian text, it
<br>will inform you that when your document contains the word "velluto" (=
<br>'velvet'), you must have really intended to type "fellatio".  Someone
<br>really ought to write a psychosemantic study of the spell-checker
<br>translation algorithm.
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<br>Larry
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