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<FlagellatingTheExpiredEquine>
The must be an off switch, and it must stay off. Spelling checkers are an abomination, and grammar checkers are worse. For every case where they find I've made an error, they come up with 100's of false positives to annoy me. While the grammar checker in Microsoft Word (for example) can be tailored, it takes too much work for far too little result. Bitch at me about dangling participles (bad habit1) and passive voice (bad habit2), and STFU.
I won't have an impudent piece of sh*t software telling me how to express myself.
</FlagellatingTheExpiredEquine>
Software Zen: delete this;
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You have time until next summer? But really - I would love to help with this, but time is a serious factor just now for me...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I'm not after spell-ckecking - every decent browser already has that. I've after spell fixing. But really, not even spelling: just punctuation and stuff. Light touch to make a big difference.
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Chris Maunder
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But clearly there is a lack of use by many.
At least if there appears to be errors flagged by the JS implementation, you could flag a message "Hey, dunderhead, it looks like you have issues to sort out, fix them before submitting!" 
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm not after spell-ckecking
Obviously
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Oh, you get a 5 for that 
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Chris Maunder
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Ah, you forgot the number one annoyance, "This is better then that." I assume it's when English is the third language...
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Will there be a nuclear option for the words "codez" and "plz"?
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That's actually a required part of the spec.
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Chris Maunder
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'Add to Dictionary':
- codez
- plz
- Asp.net
- aSP.Net
- AsP.nEt
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My voat iz fer a kontezt.
Cuz, the codez and kommentz that ppl right should b ur choice 2 regul8, what, az owner of the boardz around hear, though im not sure.
Plz consider thiz a YEZ voat, so i then did the rite thing.
However, my voat's mileage may vary.
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See reply[^]
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Chris Maunder
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It's automatic speech correction that he's after, not spell checking. So, you'd want to correct text speech from things like ur to your.
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Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work.
"yeah, that means the lot of you" is more accurate.
Though, that may get confused with "yeah, that means allot of you," which implies not the whole "lot of us," of which my using 'the whole "lot"' might further confuse others to discern I mean "a whole lot" which, like "allot of you," doesn't mean the whole "lot of you" that "lot" is describing, which is the whole of us.
So, now you (the singular "you," you being the reader, of which, when there is more than a singular "you" reader, collectively, all you readers would also be the "lot of you" readers, though not the lot of you the original "lot of you" denotes) know.
modified 18-Aug-14 13:38pm.
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MacSpudster wrote: Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work.
It's technically correct and perfect grammar when speaking Australian.
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Chris Maunder
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My point exactly!
The contest, er project specs, could include the option to qualify which language/nation the author is "typing" in. Or, perhaps, submit for 'inclusion' into a back-end repository of acceptable words and/or phrases.
Then again, there would likely be hourly, nay, minutely submissions of "Plz accept 'plz' as an acceptable word".
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Oh great. We're going to have Mick arbitrate grammar rules, I just know it. All of us stupid "Mercans" are f***ed.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Oh great. We're going to have Mick arbitrate grammar rules, I just know it. All of us stupid "Mercans" are f***ed.
Absolutely spot on.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It wouldn't take me an hour to write a "Reject" button that sends an e-mail saying "Clean up your language use, or it won't be published".
Attempts to automate language corrections normally end up creating as many problems as they solve (e.g. how many amongst us have ever used "i" as a loop-control variable or a tag to indicate italicisation?)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If it were easy it wouldn't be a challenge.
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Chris Maunder
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There's a bit of a killer crevasse between "challenge" and "life's work".
Human languages are just too damned complicated to handle with a computer without, at the very least, a several-year-old backprop routine.
You just can't treat correcting English like correcting a humongously simpler computer language.
Lookit:
With a good writer:
-- If your amendment is correct/appropriate, his response will be "Thanks!", because no-one understands snow-blindness better than an experienced writer.
-- If your amendment is incorrect/inappropriate, he probably won't say anything, but he'll take his work elsewhere, next time.
With a poor writer:
-- If your amendment is correct/appropriate, you'll at best get a "humph!" in reply.
-- If your amendment is incorrect/inappropriate, it'll escalate to a screaming fit before you can type a greengrocers' apostrophe.
Here be monsters, eh? The easiest person to turn into an enemy is the one who's not entirely sure what he's doing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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