On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Gerrit Schünemann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > >> My thought is that underlining is sufficient. An article in the >> Sunday NY Times (5 August) entitled "Auto Crrect Ths" examines >> reasons that this would be a bad idea. If the writer is unsure of >> the word or its spelling, he can always go to Artha and look it >> up. (Artha offers various suggestions if the word is misspelled.) > > If I may quote the article: > > "One more thing to worry about: the better Autocorrect gets, the more we > will come to rely on it. It’s happening already. People who yesterday > unlearned arithmetic will soon forget how to spell. One by one we are > outsourcing our mental functions to the global prosthetic brain. " > > That is just what I mean to say. A word is underlined because it's > misspelled. You right click on it and accept the suggestion. And you > learn next to nothing. If you just had a marker telling you, where the > mistake was made, that would be different.
I wonder if there is another way to turn spell checking into a learning experience. Might it be possible, via an extension, to monitor all words that are flagged as wrong by the spell checker and corrected by the user, and then give a report to the user of the most-frequently misspelled words? If this report was run, say monthly, then you could print that as flashcards or upload to a repetitive drilling app, even a mobile phone version. OK. Perhaps not as attractive to adult native speakers. But it could be useful for younger students as well as language learners of all ages. -Rob > While it is true that you can look it up using Artha (not to think about > usability), you can also look it up in the suggestions. But you still > have to check letter by letter at which point you did a mistake, which > is quite time consuming on long words. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
