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While using the recent WhiteSmoke free trial download …

Comment posted on Teacher’s Tip by steveclaycombe

While using the recent WhiteSmoke free trial download for the few days it was free, this was the Good, the Bad and the Annoying. I used it in my web email editor (AOL), with Word with RTF (Rich Text Format), and in FrontPage.

WhiteSmoke provided a helpful set of synonyms in a number of cases. This I liked a lot to facilitate choice of the terms with the most appropriate connotations. It was part of the grammar check. Some of the suggested alternative words were irrelevant to the context of the term I entered, no big deal. 

In my web email AOL Draft Folder and in FrontPage, applying any of Whitesmoke’s changes resulted in removal of the blank lines between paragraphs. I had to reinsert the line feeds manually to space the paragraphs. This was unacceptable for me with these editors. The problem did not occur in Word with RTF.

Annoyances included automatic insertion of the WhiteSmoke toolbar in IE (Internet Explorer) during WhiteSmoke installation. This was removable with the IE Toolbox and Windows Software Removal in Control Panel. Other annoyances occurred. And some features I expected to get in the WhiteSmoke User Guide or Help where not there. However, these are not deemed to be significant enough to discuss in this brief comment.

steveclaycombe also commented

• OK, fine. Somebody was just asleep at the wheel and it looks like HotForWords.com has a little work to do to be more trustworthy. About WhiteSmoke, shouldn’t they have informed HotForWords.com rather than continue to have you misrepresent their offer, i.e. be the bait?
  While you are reviewing your relationships with partners like WhiteSmoke, please be tolerant of less than perfect grammar. Although that is desirable, isn’t it more important to get meaningful comments that may provoke thought? For intelligence (is sexy?), its substance over form.
• Free download? I couldn’t find it on the WhiteSmoke web site. Not even a free trial was to be found. That was the result last week and this. My email address received a couple spams from WhiteSmoke in between to buy or subscribe like the web site.

  This looks like a bait and switch. I suppose that Marina is honest but her website management …..

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  DICTIONARY FOR WOMEN’S PERSONAL ADS

  40-ish really means 49
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  Athletic really means Small breasts
  Average looking really means Ugly
  Beautiful really means Pathological liar
  Contagious smile really means Does a lot of pills
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  Feminist really means Fat
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  Friendship first really means Former very “friendly” person
  Fun really means Annoying
  New Age really means Body hair in the wrong places
  Open-minded really means Desperate
  Outgoing really means Loud and embarrassing
  Passionate really means Sloppy drunk
  Professional really means Bitch
  Voluptuous really means Very fat
  Large frame really means Hugely fat
  Wants soul mate really means Stalker

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