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On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:09:52 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote: Unfortunately grammar checkers are very very annoying since they assume you want to be perfect, not talk like you speak. and my style is to write as I speak or as somebody else speaks. Exactly. I too like to write in my own style (such as it is), not someone else's, and especially not by being nagged by some uppity machine. The good news is that spellcheckers and grammar checkers can be switched off. The thesaurus built in to Libreoffice can be quite handy, but it only gives advice when I ask for it (Ctrl-F7) and doesn't bother me the rest of the time. It knows its place, as any worthwhile piece of technology should. The novelty of using a spellchecker to produce amusing substitutions for my friends' names wore off long ago, shortly after my first encounter with an Amstrad PCW (you know, that beige one with the daisy wheel printer that sounded like amachine gun). When spellings are in doubt, I have the good old OED, which I've used all my life, and unlike the dictionary in any wordprocessor tells me meanings and pronunciations as well. I have two CDROM versions of diferent vintages installed on my computer, and an actual two volume book version (remember them?) on a shelf. I can proudly say that everything I write, even the mistakes, is all my own work. Rod. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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In article , briang1
@blueyonder.co.uk says... No other ones it wont spot are. Pubic transport Puke instead of Pike etc. I love the spell checker on my Moto E3 mobile phone. It dosn't change what I'm typing but gives me three sugestions above the keyboard and only inserts them into the message if I tap one. It also predicts what I intend to write and is usually very good at it. For example, if I start a text with I it immediately prompts me with have/am/hope for the nest word. If I then select am it prompts with a/not/looking. If I select looking, I get forward/for/to and so on. If I strart typing a different word altogether, it prompts me with three new words that start with the same letter(s) and keeps changing them as I type more. It usually gets the word I want after 3 or 4 letters! Not bad at all for a phone that cost me £80 whilst my wife is forever swearing at the way her Asus Zenpad just changes what she is typing and mangles what she is trying to write! -- Terry --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:54:01 +0100, Terry Casey wrote:
In article , briang1 @blueyonder.co.uk says... No other ones it wont spot are. Pubic transport Puke instead of Pike etc. I love the spell checker on my Moto E3 mobile phone. It dosn't change what I'm typing but gives me three sugestions above the keyboard and only inserts them into the message if I tap one. It also predicts what I intend to write and is usually very good at it. For example, if I start a text with I it immediately prompts me with have/am/hope for the nest word. If I then select am it prompts with a/not/looking. If I select looking, I get forward/for/to and so on. If I strart typing a different word altogether, it prompts me with three new words that start with the same letter(s) and keeps changing them as I type more. It usually gets the word I want after 3 or 4 letters! Not bad at all for a phone that cost me £80 whilst my wife is forever swearing at the way her Asus Zenpad just changes what she is typing and mangles what she is trying to write! The spell checker in Pan doesn't auto-correct, it merely highlights the 'misspellings' which you can ignore or right click on to see a list of most likely alternatives to what you'd typed. You can either choose one or else tell it to add the word as typed to its dictionary. I find this sort of spell checking assistance quite useful in picking up typos as well as spelling errors which you can correct directly without bringing up the list. In this regard, it can be used as an aid to improve your innate spelling skills. The auto-correct option is likely to create a dependency which will lead to a loss of spelling ability echoing the debilitating effect of the number store facility built into every modern telephone sold since just before the end of the 2nd millennium on our ability to recall telephone numbers. The only spelling error flagged up so far, was "millennium"... oops, two errors! I'd managed to create another misspelling of "millennium" by dropping not an 'n' but an 'l' the 2nd time round. I suppose I can take solace from the fact that "millennium" offers you, not one, but two chances at getting it wrong. That's a classic example of the "Teaching Aid" effect of Pan's spell checker - I've now learnt the *correct* spelling of that slippery word, "millennium". :-) BTW, you might be interested in knowing which words in your quoted text were highlighted by Pan for correction. Here's the list:- Moto E3 A name, not two adjacent spelling mistakes dosn't doesn't a possible typo sugestions suggestions another possible typo strart start a simple typo Zenpad another name, not a spelling error Of course, this only helps with detectable misspellings. It's of no help with missing words and misspellings that aren't misspellings for similarly spelt words. If you take any pride in your work, you still have to proof read your opus magnum and hope you don't miss too many errors. -- Johnny B Good |
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