http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/01/28/aubergines/ The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman. Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/01/28/aubergines/comment-page-1/#comment-3517 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Did you mean “matrilineal”? Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:19:17 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=2398#comment-3517 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] I was recently proofreading a paper for a Taiwanese colleague and since I don’t trust my own spelling I ran it through the spell checker. Word underlined every instance of “patrilineal” in red and helpfully suggested “matrilineal” ... Hey, at least its a kinship term. I’ve seen worse. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] I was recently proofreading a paper for a Taiwanese colleague and since I don’t trust my own spelling I ran it through the spell checker. Word underlined every instance of “patrilineal” in red and helpfully suggested “matrilineal” … Hey, at least its a kinship term. I’ve seen worse. [...]

]]> http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2006/01/28/aubergines/comment-page-1/#comment-3516 Albion Fri, 03 Feb 2006 04:23:55 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=2398#comment-3516 Its a physics geek thing, but my spell checker replaces "fermions" with "freemasons". Which I suspect is how a lot of people think of us string theorists anyhow. Its a physics geek thing, but my spell checker replaces “fermions” with “freemasons”. Which I suspect is how a lot of people think of us string theorists anyhow.

]]>