Reggie Bautista wrote: > >Jim Sharkey wrote: > > > > > Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > > > >Jeroen is sort of important. Or at least to me he is because I > > > >still need him to peel and dice unions > > > > > > I would have expected a liberal nation like the Netherlands to *support* > >unions, not go on killing sprees against them. I mean, what's wrong with > >folks not allowing management to push them around, anyway? :-) > > > Sonja's eventual reply: > >I do need Euroglot! Soon nobody will take me serious anymore. :o) I'll add > >(HA! I checked this one! Finally Euroglot is back and operational.) that > >one to that big pile of silly spelling mistakes I already made. > >Why me is all I can say at this point? > > > > But would Euroglot have caught this one? Union is a valid word. Is > Euroglot a smart enough program to parse syntax like that? If so, where can > I get a copy! :-)
Not Euroglot as such. But Euroglot is a seven language dictionary and I new there was something funny about that 'vegtable' as soon as I wrote it down. <sigh> As with most of my bloopers, I just couldn't come up with the correct spelling, to make it look right to me. Euroglot helps me to check on meaning of a word in combination with the correct spelling or the morfology if I need it. Actually it's all the fault of the Dutch. Most of the (special) lettercombinations in Dutch are pronounced entirely different from most other languages. So it makes spelling (on instinct) in a foreign language very hard, especially for a lazy person like me, whose brain seems to be unable to memorize the sound/spelling combinations for the English language. :o) I gues it's the price I have to pay for being able to learn languages the easy way (just picking it up as I go along). Sonja
