Making WiFi fast

Posted Nov 17, 2016 21:19 UTC (Thu) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087)
In reply to: Making WiFi fast by Wol
Parent article: Making WiFi fast

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

Making WiFi fast

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.

Making WiFi fast

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