Uninformed
Last week my boss discovered an(other) amusing deficiency in Microsoft Word.
Open MS Word, and type the word “information”. Then look for a synonym using the built-in thesaurus.
You are offered:
- in order
- in sequence
- in turn
- in rank
- in a row
Not what I was looking for. If you look up “information” elsewhere, say, answers.com, you get words like “knowledge”, “intelligence”, “facts” and “data”. Look any of those up in MS Word, and you get “information” as the first synonym.
I was kinda hoping “knowledge” would say “be acquainted with a protuberance”…
Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 08-12-2007 | 01:08 AM
Posted in: Blather
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heh, thats funny..
Looks like it is only matching “formation” instead of “information”.
Does the option change if you have the cursor over “in”? Maybe you would get the proper synonym if you concatenate Words suggestions for “formation” and “in”.
No, the options don’t change with the cursor position. And the synonyms for “formation” are different - configuration, arrangement, shape, structure, pattern, creation, development, construction. And the words for “in” are different too - inside, within, during, into, etc.
Kudos, by the way - I had to look up “concatenate”! (Not surprisingly, MS Word has no synonyms for that one, though it’s in its dictionary.)
Oh heh.. I only know the word “concatenate” because its a geek/computer/programming term.
I’m sure I wouldn’t know the real meaning had I not been in the nerd business.