Responses inline (I ought to point out that I am using the UK English
dictionary, which may make a difference):
elgimpo wrote:
Andrew,
OOo uses MySpell while SO8 uses the commerical Franklin Proximity. Either
they use it to provide a "perceived value" or they think what they have is
better then OOo's MySpell. Some of the suggetions OOo can give one the
impression that is is "funky" or less professional that the Word or SO spell
checkers. Here's my concern. OOo sometimes provides "suggestions" that are
not words. Here's an example:
"b logging" for "blogging"
But "b logging" is the sixth and last suggestion, after 5 valid words -
I don't see that that is unreasonable - I could be saying:
"I have been:
a conducting experiments,
b logging the results, and
c writing up my conclusions,
and I have discovered that..."
And for "unecessary" (quoted elsewhere) I only get two options:
"necessary" or "unnecessary" - "u necessary" is not one of the suggestions.
And then sometimes an invalid word is not flagged. Example: "wifes" is not
flagged in OOo but it is in SO. "Wives" is the plural of wife, not "wifes."
SO provides "wives" as a suggested replacement for wifes.
Any thoughts on this?
"Wifes" is certainly flagged on my system, and one of the suggestions is
"wives" (along with "wife's", "wires" and other sensible suggestions)
So my only thought is that the English (UK) dictionary seems very
reliable and useful, and so do the German and French dictionaries (used
quite a lot by my children for schoolwork). It would be interesting to
know what native speakers of these and other languages think.
Another thought - should this move to the "discuss" list? How does one
actually carry that out - does a moderator copy the thread across? I've
seen requests that this should happen, but never known how it happens.
Andy
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