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I believe that you can call the slowing down of progress "retardation" still, just not where it applies to human beings. And that's where I feel this project i
by striking 11y ago
I believe that you can call the slowing down of progress "retardation" still, just not where it applies to human beings.
And that's where I feel this project is mistaken. Because it would flag any use of "retard" even if it were in reference to "flame retarding bromides" or an innocuous phrase like "the pace of development has slowly retarded" or "the tempo retards in the last four measures of the piece".
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoMuch like a spell-checker or Word's grammar checker screw this up, yes. I'm not sure it can be helped much.
- striking 11y agoSpell checkers et al. don't check subjective properties like tone or offensiveness. (And where it gets subjective, they would rather create a false negative than a false positive.) It works rather well.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago> Spell checkers et al. don't check subjective properties like tone or offensiveness. That's true. But grammar checkers screw up rather often for the same reason things like `alex` would: understanding context as a computer is quite hard.