While writing today's issue of MDJ, I typed the following:

The functional changes are even more nerdy.

Word 2004 (with the Service Pack 2 update, thank yew) drew a green squiggly line under that, indicating a grammar error. When I right-clicked to see the problem, it suggested that instead of "more nerdy," I should use "nerdier."

Amused that Word would have such words built into it, I agreed, and picked "nerdier" from the contextual menu to make the change.

The functional changes are even nerdier.

As soon as I did so, I got a red squiggly line under nerdier. Word's spelling dictionary didn't know that word, and suggested that I might have meant needier.

How nerdy can you get?