[pmmail-list] Stupid PMMail Tricks

[Ralph Cohen]

The=20best=20thing=20about=20PMMail's=20spelling=20checker=20is=20the=20fu=
n=20you=20can=20have
trying=20to=20figure=20out=20exactly=20what=20"logic"=20it=20uses=20to=20p=
resent
alternatives=20to=20a=20misspelled=20word.=20=20For=20instance,=20I=20miss=
pelled=20the=20word
"document"=20writing=20"documemt"=20instead,=20and=20the=20replacement=20s=
uggested=20by
the=20spelling=20checker=20was=20"tagmeme"=20followed=20by=20"tagmemics",=20=
"tagmemes",
etc.=20=20Two=20questions=20immediately=20sprang=20to=20mind.=20=20First,=20=
what=20kind=20of
programming=20logic=20does=20it=20take=20to=20recommend=20"tagmeme"=20as=20=
the=20correct
spelling=20of=20"documemt"=20("document"=20appeared=20nowhere=20in=20the=20=
list),=20and
second,=20what=20the=20heck=20is=20a=20"tagmeme"?=20=20Well,=20I=20never=20=
did=20come=20up=20with
an=20answer=20to=20my=20first=20question=20and=20I=20was=20about=20ready=20=
to=20give=20up=20on=20my
second=20one=20after=20two=20online=20dictionaries=20came=20up=20with=20a=20=
blank=20for
"tagmeme",=20but=20then=20I=20turned=20to=20the=20ultimate=20dictionary=20=
-=20Google.=20
Google=20led=20me=20to=20a=20link=20for=20a=20linguistics=20dictionary=20w=
here=20I=20learned:

=09tagmeme=20['t=E6gmi:m]
=09noun
=09(Linguistics)=20=20a=20class=20of=20speech=20elements=20all=20of=20whic=
h=20may=20
=09fulfil=20the=20same=20grammatical=20role=20in=20a=20sentence;=20the=20m=
inimum=20
=09unit=20of=20analysis=20in=20tagmemics
=09[ETYMOLOGY:=2020th=20Century:=20from=20Greek=20tagma=20order,=20from=20=

=09tassein=20to=20put=20in=20order=20+=20-eme]
=09tag'memic=20adjective

See,=20it's=20not=20a=20bug,=20it's=20a=20feature!!


Ralph=20Cohen
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