Unsurprisingly, Elon Musk lashed out at word processing software Microsoft Word for an “inclusive” feature. On Twitter, the businessman noted that Word “scolds people” when they don’t use inclusive writing.
In fact, for several years Microsoft Word has offered an option to correct non-inclusive texts. Since 2016, for example, the software has been updated and may propose, for example, replacing the term “all experts” with “all experts”.
An option to check
This is an option that the user can check or uncheck in settings, so it is optional. These software comments do not appear in red like grammatical and spelling errors, but in brown.
And more recently, since 2020, a new update to Microsoft Word also proposes using non-discriminatory terms, hence the correction of Elon Musk’s word “insane”, which means “crazy” in English, and which can be used to pejoratively describe people. a person who suffers. of mental disorders.
Additionally, Elon Musk’s tweet was the subject of a community note, stating that this feature was an option that could be checked or unchecked at will.
Source: BFM TV
