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[yubsie]

Dear Spellcheck,

The following ARE in fact words. Furthermore, they are spelled correctly.

Imine
Imidazolidine
Dihydrochloride
Deprotonate
Pinacol
Deprotect
Transeseterification
Intramolecular
Cyclization
Tautomerization
Diamine
Boronate
Naphthyl
Functionalities
Deuterated
Proteasome
Heterocycle
Dimethylsulfoxide (aka EFFING DMSO :p)
Aryl

So stop red squiggling at me!

No love,

The Scientific Community

Comments

[melonriel.livejournal.com]

Obviously they need a chemistry spell checker. :-p

[yubsie]

CLEARLY. :p

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

It's because science isn't really english :P It's only pretending.

[yubsie]

Oh, is that it? :p

[seryan.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's a very good explanation for a LOT of the English language!

[chibifrieza.livejournal.com]

It does the same thing with composers and some musical terminology (not to mention MY NAME. My last name is Supeene. It always suggests "Supine" as an alternative. I AM NOT LYING ON MY BACK. THANK YOU). When writing papers of any great length, I turn the bloody thing off. I was so proud of myself the first time I did a point-form analysis paper for music theory and went in and figured out how to disable all the auto-formatting and auto-corrects and red and green squigglies. I felt I had conquered something.

Word processing shouldn't feel like war. :P

[yubsie]

We won't even get IN to what it thinks of the full names of my compounds. And the less said about its opinion of my Acknowledgements and my references the better. :p

Word processing is a grueling battle. :p

[seryan.livejournal.com]

You probably have an interesting customized dictionary, like mine, which includes the words Cybertron, Energon, and transparasteel as proper words. :P

[yubsie]

Oh, mine is full of chem words, fandom words and words I made up for my own writing. :p

[seryan.livejournal.com]

Thank Microsoft you can customize the thing. Word is weirdly user-friendly, actually...

Incidentally, when I was skimming past your list, I accidentally read Pinacol as Pinacolatate. Not sure how.

[sarahetc.livejournal.com]

I'm-a start a rock band called Transesterification. That is really fun to say.

[yubsie]

It definitely is. Now if only the reaction didn't take five days I needed to do it to make one of my STARTING materials. :p

Would be a totally awesome rock band though. :p

[non-horation.livejournal.com]

If it's not going to take Secord, no way in hell it's gonna take Dimethylsulfoxide. :-p

[yubsie]

It doesn't take SECORD? Stupid American spellcheck. :p