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Jason Scott Mullins
Detective Sergeant
Username: Crix0r
Post Number: 143
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 11:59 am: |       |
Hello All, Stephen
I might have found an error in the dictionary of the on-line spell checker. It thinks 'sodomized' is spelled incorrectly. A quick trip to my dictionary told me that I was not in err.
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Sarah Long
Chief Inspector
Username: Sarah
Post Number: 888
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 12:05 pm: | |
Jason,
In the USA it is sodomized but in the UK it is sodomised.
Sarah
P.S Hmmm it doesn't seem to like the UK version either. |
Glenn L Andersson
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Glenna
Post Number: 1284
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 12:59 pm: | |
Well, name one automatic function in a computer program that works perfectly. Take the spell checking functions in Microsoft Word or the syllabification in PageMaker... Yeah, sure.
I think the spell checking function here works as good as can be expected, maybe even better then that. The only thing that bugs me (who has English as a non-native language) is that it don't give you any correction proposals.
All the best
Glenn Gustaf Lauritz Andersson
Crime historian, Sweden |
Jason Scott Mullins
Detective Sergeant
Username: Crix0r
Post Number: 145
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 1:38 pm: | |
Hey There Glenn -
I don't think anything that we create is perfect. Aside from the fact that 'perfect' is difficult to quantify, we are imperfect creatures. As such, I don't think we can create perfect things.
What we can do however, is create a tool that will lend itself to future upgrades and/or modifications. In this case, a 'dictionary' that can be updated as needed. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't picking on it. I was just under the impression that it came with a standard 'dictionary' (as most spell check programs do) and that it somehow got it wrong and could be fixed rather easily. I figured I should let someone know.
English being my first language, I don't notice the lack of correction proposals as much as you might, so I can't comment on them or their absence. I do often find myself fumbling for a word. When I do, I normally hit the net in a frenzied search
crix0r
P.S. Your command of the english language has never given me any difficulty. If you hadn't mentioned you weren't from a predominately non-english speaking country, I could have never guessed it by just your post's alone :P |
Glenn L Andersson
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Glenna
Post Number: 1285
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 3:10 pm: | |
Hey there Jason,
Thank you for your kind words. I am struggling more with it than people think and it's nice to see that it's appreciated.
It is somewhat frustrating when the spell checking function hits a word without showing the correct spelling alternatives. So therefore a dictionary is as important to me as the spell checking function. Without the dictionary the spell checking function would be useless to me in many ways. However, the spell checking also makes you aware of ordinary typos as well, and that is a blessing at least for yours truly...
Nevertheless, my point was that my expectations on automatic functions are quite low in general. I use computers, with word processing and desktop publishing programs daily in my work and I have learnt that you almost on every occasion have to manually correct blunders that the automatic functions for some reason has created. Seen in that light, I think the spell checking function on this site does its job fairly well (although it reacts like mad to certain names).
All the best, Jason
(Message edited by Glenna on March 15, 2004)
Glenn Gustaf Lauritz Andersson
Crime historian, Sweden |
Chris LeQuellec
Sergeant
Username: Chrislq
Post Number: 24
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 4:24 pm: | |
Hi,
As Glenn english is not me first language, the spell checker can help me to give sense to my sentences
Chris |
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