Making WiFi fast

Posted Nov 17, 2016 10:06 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Making WiFi fast by mtaht
Parent article: Making WiFi fast

> I filed bugs with every spell checker maker (in the 80s and 90s) with an algorithm to fix this, none deployed it (Anything without a period in front of it and a capital Taht, don't respell). The bastards!

WordPerfect had an incredibly simple fix for this, in response to all sorts of problems.

1) Let the user dictionary correct a word to itself, eg "MSc == MSc".

2) The user dictionary is the first one consulted.

3) As soon as any dictionary or rule fired, terminate all further checking.

Fixes ANY and ALL spellcheck problems :-) (Oh, and this was back in WP5.1 for DOS, if not earlier.)

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Nov 17, 2016 21:19 UTC (Thu) by mtaht (guest, #11087) [Link] (3 responses)

In the vast majority of cases you want the spellchecker to automagically correct taht to that.

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Posted Nov 17, 2016 23:44 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

Yes but the vast majority of words which are capitalized and not at the beginning of the sentence are proper nouns which are often spelled differently from regular words.

Examples: Kaycee, Maryanne, Marianne, Marian, Britney, Britnee, Destynie.

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Posted Nov 18, 2016 4:47 UTC (Fri) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

> In the vast majority of cases you want the spellchecker to automagically correct taht to that.

Speak for yourself :-)

In every single imaginable case I do *not* want any spellchecker to automagically correct anything.
I'm very happy for possible errors to be highlighted and for probable corrections to be only a gesture away. But if I ever make an error (whch I do), I want it to be *my* error, not a machine's.

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Posted Nov 18, 2016 20:49 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

So, you have "Taht == Taht".

Okay, it won't pick up a mis-spelt "that" at the start of a sentence, but when was that ever "proper" English". :-)

Iirc the complete rule, WordPerfect ignored case if the dictionary entry was all lower case. As soon as you had mixed or upper case, it had to be a perfect match.

Cheers,
Wol