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New politically correct version of Word will help keep you from hurting people's feelings
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:24 pm
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A new version of Microsoft Word will take document checking to another level. It will check your writing for political correctness and make suggestions that are more sensitive toward your readers.
The artificial intelligence-driven program dubbed, "Ideas in Word," is aimed at helping writers, well, write better, Fast Company reported.
Microsoft has not described the program as a political correctness tool, according to the report.
Similar to the program's current grammar and spellcheck suggestions, Ideas in Word will underline words that appear insensitive in nature.
For example, if a person writes, "We need to get some fresh blood in here," the program would probably suggest changing the wording to something like, "We need to get some new employees," Fast Company said.
Words that refer to genders such as "spokeswoman," "waitress," or "mailman," would likely trigger suggestions including, "spokesperson," "waitperson" or "mailperson," respectively.
Similarly, if you call someone a "disabled person" in your writing, the software would prompt you to change the wording to "someone with a disability."
It will flag phrases that could be considered offensive in other countries or cultures, according to Fast Company. And it will assist writers with clarity and conciseness.
Microsoft worked with a team of language experts to come up with commonly used poor wording choices and develop a list of terms that could be used instead, Office Intelligence product manager Malavika Rewari told the magazine.
Office 365 customers can expect to see it in June, ahead of a general release later this year.
A new version of Microsoft Word will take document checking to another level. It will check your writing for political correctness and make suggestions that are more sensitive toward your readers.
The artificial intelligence-driven program dubbed, "Ideas in Word," is aimed at helping writers, well, write better, Fast Company reported.
Microsoft has not described the program as a political correctness tool, according to the report.
Similar to the program's current grammar and spellcheck suggestions, Ideas in Word will underline words that appear insensitive in nature.
For example, if a person writes, "We need to get some fresh blood in here," the program would probably suggest changing the wording to something like, "We need to get some new employees," Fast Company said.
Words that refer to genders such as "spokeswoman," "waitress," or "mailman," would likely trigger suggestions including, "spokesperson," "waitperson" or "mailperson," respectively.
Similarly, if you call someone a "disabled person" in your writing, the software would prompt you to change the wording to "someone with a disability."
It will flag phrases that could be considered offensive in other countries or cultures, according to Fast Company. And it will assist writers with clarity and conciseness.
Microsoft worked with a team of language experts to come up with commonly used poor wording choices and develop a list of terms that could be used instead, Office Intelligence product manager Malavika Rewari told the magazine.
Office 365 customers can expect to see it in June, ahead of a general release later this year.
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Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:26 pm to Crimson Wraith
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This post was edited on 1/19/21 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:26 pm to Crimson Wraith
Oh my god how will I be able to use word ever again !!
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:27 pm to Crimson Wraith
Control language and you control people. We will be a 1984 state in 20 years.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:27 pm to Crimson Wraith
Microsoft teaching us how to speak 
Wonder if Amazon will teach us how to properly talk on the phone.
Wonder if Amazon will teach us how to properly talk on the phone.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:28 pm to Crimson Wraith
Does this thesaurus feature go the other way, where we can find a more politically incorrect word or phrase to use?
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:29 pm to Crimson Wraith
If the option to disable this feature doesn't exist, then Office 2019 will be the last version of Office ever sold by Microsoft.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:29 pm to tide06
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Will they be providing a MAGA edition in which all of that garbage is turned off?
No, but it will probably allow someone to say whatever they want if they are writing from a leftist POS view.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:31 pm to Crimson Wraith
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Poor Asher, who always talked too fast and mixed up words, even as a toddler. As a Three, eager for his juice and crackers at snacktime, he one day said "smack"instead of "snack" as he stood waiting in line for the morning treat.
Jonas remembered it clearly. He could still see little Asher, wiggling with impatience in the line. He remembered the cheerful voice call out, "I want my smack!"
The other Threes, including Jonas, had laughed nervously. "Snack!" they corrected."You meant snack, Asher!" But the mistake had been made. And precision of language was one of the most important tasks of small children. Asher had asked for a smack.
The discipline wand, in the hand of the Childcare worker, whistled as it came down across Asher's hands. Asher whimpered, cringed and corrected himself instantly."Snack," he whispered.
But the next morning he had done it again. And again the following week. He couldn't seem to stop, though for each lapse, the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was a Three.
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He had been trained since earliest childhood, since his earliest learning of language,never to lie. It was an integral part of the learning of precise speech. Once, when he had been a Four, he had said, just prior to the midday meal at school, "I'm starving."
Immediately he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision. He was not starving, it was pointed out. He was hungry. No one in the community was starving, had ever been starving, would ever be starving. To say starving was to speak a lie. An unintentioned lie, of course. But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered. Did he understand that? they asked him. And he had.
This post was edited on 5/9/19 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:34 pm to Crimson Wraith
There will be a way to turn that crap off, will there not?
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:35 pm to Crimson Wraith
That is so wonderfully Soviet.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 4:43 pm to Crimson Wraith
I can't wait for a programmer to make it to where eveytime it cross-references a word, it pulls a replacement from the wrong table.....thus creating the most offensive progressive head-exploding speech ever created.
A reverse engineered masterpiece for sure.
A reverse engineered masterpiece for sure.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 4:50 pm to Crimson Wraith
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New politically correct version of Word will help keep you from hurting people's feelings
Will it say Big Brother approved on the package?
Posted on 5/9/19 at 4:51 pm to Crimson Wraith
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, if you call someone a "disabled person" in your writing, the software would prompt you to change the wording to "someone with a disability."
But that’s less concise writing.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 4:56 pm to shutterspeed
My Book Report On Huck Finn
I write:
He said to Neeger Jim....
Word Wrote:
He or she or zhe said to African-American Jim.....
I write:
He said to Neeger Jim....
Word Wrote:
He or she or zhe said to African-American Jim.....
Posted on 5/9/19 at 5:00 pm to BlackHelicopterPilot
If this program questions my usage of the word "n*ggardly" I will be fit to be tied 
Posted on 5/9/19 at 5:01 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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TbirdSpur2010
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I will be fit to be tied
I don't think Word will let me write this about YOU
Posted on 5/9/19 at 5:02 pm to Crimson Wraith
Won't be long until it refuses to save non " corrected" versions.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 5:02 pm to Crimson Wraith
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It will flag phrases that could be considered offensive in other countries or cultures, according to Fast Company. And it will assist writers with clarity and conciseness.
This part and only this part will be useful
Posted on 5/9/19 at 5:03 pm to Crimson Wraith
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It will check your writing for political correctness and make suggestions that are more sensitive toward your readers.
Literally 1984 in action
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