Stephen Morris > > Differentiating between a word that is in its dictionary but spelt > > differently and a word that is not in its dictionary at all.
Samuel Sieb: > Do you think the dictionaries actually have that information? I suppose it's possible for a word processor to differently indicate a totally unknown word, versus a did you mean ¿this? word that's almost the same. But that would be programatically more intensive to do. Having said that, when a *what-the-hell?* is detected, you usually do get a short list of likely candidates when you go to check on it, and for many years we have had phones that do auto-corrupt as you type. So, it is do-able. Though I don't really see any advantage in calling that level of detail to your attention on a page. For me, simply *some* indication that a word ought to be double-checked is enough. And, in my case, it's not always an indication that the word is wrong, often it's the checker that just doesn't know (because there's no local-dictionary, or it's a foreign word in an English text, or it's technical jargon that the dictionary doesn't know about). We also have grammar checkers, which flag up content in another way. I'm not enamoured by them. The writing rules of different countries do not agree with each other, and even particular writing styles within the same country. You don't write a speech like a book, for instance. And I think a University thesis might have their own kinks, too. On that note, I see various written-by-AI texts on things, and they're abnormal language, too (typically air-head-influencer style, and there's also marketing-droid-speak or what the older generation would have called snake-oil-salesman style). I certainly wouldn't be trusting that kind of analysis to work on my documents. The moment someone advocates letting AI do that kind of thing for them, I rate that in the same area as having someone else do your homework for you at school. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
