{"id":1042,"date":"2003-03-25T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T08:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/26\/no-substitute\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T23:27:07","slug":"no-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/25\/no-substitute\/","title":{"rendered":"No substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s something that shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to anyone with a modicum of intelligence &#8212; spell- and grammar-checking software doesn&#8217;t always help, and can often hinder good writing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  How might you drag a good writer&#8217;s work down to the level of a lesser scribe? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/wire\/2003\/03\/17\/spellcheck\/index.html?x\" title=\"Spell-check makes writing worse\">Try the spell-check button<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may level the playing field between people with differing levels of language skills, hampering the work of writers and editors who place too much trust in the software.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been ranting about this for <em>years<\/em> &#8212; most recently, back in <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/nu_shortcuts_in.html\" title=\"Nu shortcuts in school r 2 much 4 teachers\">September<\/a>. Software checkers can only do so much, and there&#8217;s no substitute for a well-educated mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s something that shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to anyone with a modicum of intelligence &mdash; spell- and grammar-checking software doesn&#8217;t always help, and can often hinder good writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}