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Post by peterob on Sept 15, 2024 19:23:16 GMT
With AI, spell checking has advanced from simple checking, to word completion, to word suggestion.
I'm at a total loss as to what the journalist meant to write.
Sunday Times today on the cost of a ciggie in Gaza.
"Even one of our orthopaedic colleagues who was a smoker can no longer afford the habit."
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Post by spinno on Sept 15, 2024 19:46:17 GMT
With AI, spell checking has advanced from simple checking, to word completion, to word suggestion. I'm at a total loss as to what the journalist meant to write. Sunday Times today on the cost of a ciggie in Gaza. "Even one of our orthopaedic colleagues who was a smoker can no longer afford the habit." Surgeon? |
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 15, 2024 20:07:05 GMT
Peripatetic?
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Post by spinno on Sept 15, 2024 20:10:16 GMT
A syndicated story I've come across concerns advice issued by the Met Office.
They're advising people to draw their curtains...some stories are saying at 4.30, others at 4.00...
Some stories are saying close bedroom windows to keep the temperature at 18°c, others are saying close the bathroom window...
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Post by peterob on Sept 15, 2024 20:27:13 GMT
With AI, spell checking has advanced from simple checking, to word completion, to word suggestion. I'm at a total loss as to what the journalist meant to write. Sunday Times today on the cost of a ciggie in Gaza. "Even one of our orthopaedic colleagues who was a smoker can no longer afford the habit." Surgeon? I agree that orthopaedic surgeon colleague would make some sense but what might the single word coming after "our" be? The reason I'm interested is that a couple of months ago I found Microsoft Word anticipating my next word while I was writing a report. It was very unsettling and I had to turn all grammar and spelling aids off because it was messing up my thought process. |
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Post by willien on Sept 15, 2024 20:40:30 GMT
I agree that orthopaedic surgeon colleague would make some sense but what might the single word coming after "our" be? The reason I'm interested is that a couple of months ago I found Microsoft Word anticipating my next word while I was writing a report. It was very unsettling and I had to turn all grammar and spelling aids off because it was messing up my thought process. I had to get a colleague to turn of predictive text from my work phone circa 2013 - otherwise I risked being sacked for swearing loud and long in an open plan office. |
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Post by zou on Sept 15, 2024 20:51:34 GMT
Am I alone in thinking it's maybe a direct quote? If it's a doctor/medical type saying a colleague who works in orthopaedics, it's reasonable to assume they used that as an adjective.
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Post by spinno on Sept 15, 2024 21:21:39 GMT
A syndicated story I've come across concerns advice issued by the Met Office. They're advising people to draw their curtains...some stories are saying at 4.30, others at 4.00... Some stories are saying close bedroom windows to keep the temperature at 18°c, others are saying close the bathroom window... Oh and I should mention that the website stories are all from the same organisation...Reach |
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Post by Chester PB on Sept 15, 2024 21:24:21 GMT
With AI, spell checking has advanced from simple checking, to word completion, to word suggestion. I'm at a total loss as to what the journalist meant to write. Sunday Times today on the cost of a ciggie in Gaza. "Even one of our orthopaedic colleagues who was a smoker can no longer afford the habit." 'Addicted' for 'orthopaedic'? |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Sept 15, 2024 21:51:20 GMT
Having worked for 4+ years with orthopaedic colleagues I would think odds on "smoker" is correct
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Post by peterob on Sept 16, 2024 7:38:51 GMT
Am I alone in thinking it's maybe a direct quote? If it's a doctor/medical type saying a colleague who works in orthopaedics, it's reasonable to assume they used that as an adjective. Maybe it is me alone thinking that it makes a very poor adjectival noun and that the journalist was just being sloppy with no word substitution happening. It just looked so odd. |
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Post by Kath on Sept 17, 2024 9:32:15 GMT
Am I alone in thinking it's maybe a direct quote? If it's a doctor/medical type saying a colleague who works in orthopaedics, it's reasonable to assume they used that as an adjective. Maybe it is me alone thinking that it makes a very poor adjectival noun and that the journalist was just being sloppy with no word substitution happening. It just looked so odd. I think it sounds quite reasonable...the sort of thing you'd say if you were constantly under pressure to get information out quickly so that those who needed to know what you were on about knew what you were on about. orthopaedic colleague - colleague who works in orthopaedics front of house colleague - colleague who works front of house HR colleague - colleague who works in HR It works for a lot of jobs. Perhaps not 'my geriatric colleague' which could be taken the wrong way. |
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Post by don on Sept 17, 2024 10:24:57 GMT
I personally don’t care 🤷♂️ and the more replies I read I got less and less interested
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Post by beatnik69 on Sept 18, 2024 14:31:53 GMT
Am I alone in thinking it's maybe a direct quote? If it's a doctor/medical type saying a colleague who works in orthopaedics, it's reasonable to assume they used that as an adjective. That was how I read it. It made sense to me. |
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Post by don on Sept 27, 2024 13:14:17 GMT
No Pedantic, all people who pull apart other people’s writing are being Pedantic which the google describes :- Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more pedantic /pɪˈdantɪk/ adjective excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous. |
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