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nym_wibblymaid(s, in a castle) >> house cleaner(s)
maid(en) >> house cleaner
mistress (as a form of address) >> lover, head of household
councilmen >> council members
mankind >> humankind, humanity (that one's okay)
seamstresses >> tailors, menders
man (as in man to man) >> staff, take control of (?!?)
Word's new inclusive-language checker, a truly handy thing for non-fiction/neutral POV writing, has some fundamental issues with the faux-medieval-misogynistic in-world language of A Bed of Thorns. And is occasionally just plain stupid and wrong, just like its grammar-checking predecessors. And don't get me started on the unholy things it still tries to do with commas.
I'll have to give it a proper run for its money one of these days and see how it does across the gender and sexuality spectrums in non-fiction. Meanwhile, it can butt the hell out of my faux-medieval worldbuilding and my faux-medieval character's entirely biased POV, especially where it only recognises one definition for simple words with an archaic or alternate usage. C'mon Microsoft, it's about time we had a "fiction" setting on this thing. Or at least one that ignores things it doesn't like provided they're between quotation marks.
maid(en) >> house cleaner
mistress (as a form of address) >> lover, head of household
councilmen >> council members
mankind >> humankind, humanity (that one's okay)
seamstresses >> tailors, menders
man (as in man to man) >> staff, take control of (?!?)
Word's new inclusive-language checker, a truly handy thing for non-fiction/neutral POV writing, has some fundamental issues with the faux-medieval-misogynistic in-world language of A Bed of Thorns. And is occasionally just plain stupid and wrong, just like its grammar-checking predecessors. And don't get me started on the unholy things it still tries to do with commas.
I'll have to give it a proper run for its money one of these days and see how it does across the gender and sexuality spectrums in non-fiction. Meanwhile, it can butt the hell out of my faux-medieval worldbuilding and my faux-medieval character's entirely biased POV, especially where it only recognises one definition for simple words with an archaic or alternate usage. C'mon Microsoft, it's about time we had a "fiction" setting on this thing. Or at least one that ignores things it doesn't like provided they're between quotation marks.
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