Spell checker limitations 4

[dgillz]

It always helps to read your email before you send it, even with spell checker revealing no errors. We have all seen people in writing say "there" when the word should be "their", or "your" instead of "you're".

I just got bit in the rear by the comment "Can you [red]seethe[/red] the crystal icon?"

Of course "seethe" should be "see the" but "seethe" is a word, and spell checker did not notify me of this, and I looked like an idiot.

What is the most outrageous example of a word, phrase or sentence that passed spell checker you have ever seen? Is there any way to add such words to a red list so spell checker will warn you, even if it is a real word? Sort of an anti-dictionary?

All feedback welcomed.

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[KenCunningham]

I may have mentioned before an ex-colleague who began an email to our then boss with the immortal 'I appear to have a malfunctioning hard dick'. In fact he had no need for viagra, just a replacement disk.

I don't mind people who aren't what they seem. I just wish they'd make their mind up.

 

[CajunCenturion]

Spell checkers help you spell words right, but doesn't help you use the right words.

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[Lunatic]

Santa

It was after an interview for a position on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) study. However I thanked them for the opportunity to interview for NAPE (the back of the neck) study...

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[GwydionM]

Today on Word 2002, I accidentally wrote mames when I meant names. The spell checker tried mamas, mimes and memes. It's usually smarter than that.

You do get real-life cases of the thing to poem shows, how the spell checker can give you a real word that makes no sense in context.

I heard of a case when a lawyer's letter said monies, a typical bit of lawyer-speak. Only it came out as ponies, causing much amusement with some other lawyers who received it.

SF writer Ursula Le Guin used to give interesting alternatives, Ursula Let Grin or Ursula Ale Ruin

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[rosieb]

Word's no fun any more - I once went through an entire document, a bit late at night, accepting all changes - when I thought I was hitting the reject button.

My colleague Hilary Rochford became "aerially reachieved" all the way through, I can't remember what it did to other colleagues, but the whole document became surreal!

Rosie
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[2ffat]

Rosieb,

[tab]Do you still have the document? Will you post it here? I would like to be "'aerially reachieved,'" too.


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[MallardVHS]

I don't know what all the fuss is about.

I personally have ten spill checkers. Win my big tow gets whet, I know somebody spilled something and I oughta check it out...

No, weight

[gray]Don[/gray]


[green]Tis far easier to keep your duck in a row if you just have the one.[/green]

 

[rosieb]

2ffat Noooo - I wish I did. I really should have kept it - in retrospect, it was a real work of art. Incomprehensible, but somehow almost poetic. Or insane.

Rosie
"Don't try to improve one thing by 100%, try to improve 100 things by 1%

 

[2ffat]

Durn!

James P. Cottingham
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