[Bogey Man]

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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Any linguist (as opposed to Artificial Intelligence folk!) will tell
you that fluent computer use of human language is decades, if not
centuries, away. The most unrealistic thing about *2001: A Space
Odyssey* was the conversing computer HAL -- but note that it never
occurred to Clarke & Kubrik that computers would be little boxes long
before 2001!

It's possible (not easy, but possible) to compose a passage that can
be read as either Latin or Italian. No matter how good Word's proofing
tools for those two languages are, what would it do?

In addition to what has already been said, English isn't a "pure" language
in itself. It has several dialects where words have totally different
meanings depending upon usage from one dialect to another and from one
geographic region to another.

The best that you can do is to have proofing tools appropriate to the work
that you are doing (legal, medical, engineering etc.) Even then, grammar
checking will cause headaches. I would suggest as others have done; turn off
grammar checking.