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Getting increasingly annoyed with Outlook's grammar+style check. It gives me squiggly lines with suggestions that erase nuance and dilute meaning, for the sake of brevity/concision.

No, "if" doesn't mean the same thing as "as long as", it lacks the connotation of of concern and almost an ultimatum. "if", in comparison, is a shoulder shrug.

@clacke Same. I turned it off, because it's completely useless to anyone with a passing understanding of English.

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@loke I do have a tendency to get wordy, and so far I feel like 30% of the suggestions are reining that in. I don't usually take the suggestion, but I take the criticism and rephrase.

And then sometimes it will criticize my rephrased wording, and that's part of the frustration.
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@clacke