What you see
No linguistics here, just some griping regarding wordpress’s new WYSIWYG post editor. First, it’s annoying, as many such editors are, with strange spacing and line-inserting properties that make you format paragraphs in ways you might not want to. What’s really interesting is how it interacts with a firefox extention that does spell-checking. The extension, when activated, will highlight in red all words in text fields that are misspelled. Clicking on the words will give a list of alternatives. When you’re done checking, you deactivate the checker and the red highlighting goes away. Interestingly, when you are using the WYSIWYG editor and use the spell-checker, you get the red highlighting, but the list of alternatives doesn’t show up. And then, the highlighting stays around after the checker is deactivated. What does this mean? It means that if you post the entry with the red highlighting, the actual post will have red text (with some really messy HTML). Never mind that the editor itself doesn’t let you change text color: somehow the spellchecker does it for you. That’s some weird stuff. (It should be obvious that I no longer use the new version of the post editor)