On 6/11/05, Peter Kupfer OOo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
> >
> >> Is it odd to anyone else that the words Thunderbird and FireFox are
> >> not in the Thunderbird spell checker dictionary?
> >>
> >
> > Only if it's odd that "OpenOffice.org" is not in the OOo dictionary. :-)

Far from "Pretensionness" - I think adding "Flossisms" to the OOo
Dictionary (and the Mozilla Dictionaries) would be a good thing.  I
think OOo should add these words, (if they are not already in the
dicitionary) OpenOffice.org, Calc, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Firefox,
Sunbird, Gimp, KDE, Linux, GNU, GNU/Linux, FSF, Konqueror, Koffice,
AbiWord, etc.  At least add the ones for the OOo project - but I would
add at least the top three (OOo, Moz, and Linux).

Maybe someone who knows more about this stuff than me should come up
with an "Open Source Language Dictionary" that could be used for all
open source projects.  It could have plugins for spell checkers,
dictionaries, and thesauri, (although most of the words wouldn't work
for thesauri).  I mean, the recognition of words is important.  If OOo
says that the word  "OpenOffice.org" is misspelled, that sends a bad
message about the project, and if it says Mozilla is misspelled, that
makes it look like we don't recognize them.

I'm pretty sure MS Office includes the words "Microsoft",
"Powerpoint", and "Clippy" in their dictionaries/spelling lists.  It's
just good marketing.

-Chad

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