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Spell checkers are nice-to-have features. Looking up words in dictionaries
can be slow. Another nice thing about spell-checkers is that they will
usually catch a typo error. It is very important in a mailing list like
this to pay very close attention to your spelling because there are many
list members whose primary language is not English. When they should
encounter a word that they can't find in a dictionary, they will write back
to inquire about it's meaning. Of course it is most embarrassing to have
to explain to everybody that you have made a spelling mistake that you could
have easily avoided if you had used a spell-checker.
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What about when the spelling mistake is a different word, like "loose" for
"lose", "thief" for "their", "indent" for "intend", "inflationary" for
"inflammatory", "dis" for "did"? All except the first of these are actual
examples from one person in newsgroup alt.support.asthma who uses a spell
checker. Maybe a Freudian slip? No doubt a lot of us would wish an
anti-inflationary medication for the real eatate business.
Spell checkers slow me down too much.
