Hello John,
Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 2:00:31 AM, you wrote:
JS> I'm just wondering what exactly the difference is according to The
JS> Bat!'s spellchecking system. It just so happens that the three words
JS> I've given are the reversed of three good English words[1] (He, is and
JS> it) - is this all there is to it? The difference between a suspected
JS> mis-spelling caused by two swapped letters rather that by
JS> missing/extra/wrong letters? Why is the difference sufficiently
JS> important to give a different (albeit quite subtle) visual cue?
JS> [1] I see that "Teh" also does this, but "Somehting" doesn't. Both
JS> only have one replacement.
all the words are checked against a list... and 'teh' is in the list,
while 'somehting' isn't...
So, why not write an algorithm that checks for those little
differences?
Simple: current pc's are way to slow to run such a check...
it would cost such an enormous amount of time (just think of the word
enormous: how many combinations can you make?) that everybody would
become irritated...
For that reason lists are used... (problem here is: make your list too
big etc...)
Solution: add somehting to your list :)
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