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I read it randomly, too, having found it in a summer vacation house. Found it hilarious, once I finally caught on, and went back and re-read it over the summer. Isn't most "great" literature best read if you discover it yourself? Much more fun than university seminars on Tolstoevsky, не так ли?

Hear! Hear!

I found the comment slightly witty, not insulting. I mean, you have to be able to take (or get) a joke!

I know plenty of people for whom the tool is really useful -- my foreign-born wife for example. But were she to limit her native expression with the same kind of "simplifying" that the tool offers, I am sure she would not be perceived as having any kind of personality at all.

For me, when I write -- and I like to write -- I choose to break convention often. The tool frustrates me and wastes my time. Sure there is an audience for this, but I don't want to sound like everybody else. That's MY attitude.

...and reading the comments does make it sound like a key-logger ... so no, I can't say I trust the extension.

There's a difference for sure, at least in my perception, but some of that is my own baggage. I'll give an example: I was using Symfony for a project, but found the tone of the Symfony website and tutorials, in the English texts, to be annoying and a little patronizing and a little self-aggrandizing. But one day I heard a youtube video with Symfony founder, and Frenchman, Fabien Potencier speaking. For the first time I understood his genuine enthusiasm. Up to then, I'd been "hearing" it wrong -- same text, different emphasis and intonation. Now when I read the text, I try to imagine M. Potencier saying it aloud, and it sounds almost dear.

Shout out to Lincoln-Sudbury RHS where Hack began...and JOVE! Can't imagine that fantastic experiment happening again; PDP-11 running Unix given to a cohort of teenagers to maintain. Thanks Brian!