And the more I type it, the less I recognise it!
It’s starting to look… not right.
And the more I type it, the less I recognise it!
It’s starting to look… not right.
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Mine doesn’t like the word “movie”. It gives me the angry red squiggle-underline.
I think I got a highbrow version of Firefox that prefers to watch “films”.
Mine doesn’t recognize “should’ve”.
Movie and online. I mean, online? Really?
Mine doesn’t recognize any contractions. Quite annoying really as I have to remember if I’m spelling it right. I’ve added a few to the dictionary, but it still comes up with some.
“Customizability”
Mine almost always has an issue with contractions.
The VBB forum for TiVo users has uses a built in spell checker, whoever set it up, for some reason, didn’t add the word Tivo to it.
AOL, used to offer text to speech for it’s email, they really needed to put an exception in so it knew to say A-O-L when the word came up instead of Aol (rhymes with howl).
Your dictionaries were written by Mr Data.
Is he related to Mr Coffee?
In its defense, I don’t recognize it either. That isn’t an American word as far as I know. That said, my installation of Firefox got kicked out of school pretty early. It amazes me sometimes with the words it has never heard of. Numero uno of those is the word ‘internet’. You would think that would be one of the ones it understands intuitively backwards and forwards but that is not the case. It knows the word exists but not in lower case form. ‘Internet’ is Ok and it is all over ‘INTERNET’ but god forbid you don’t drop a capitalized character in there or it will be all over your shit just to mess with you.
Sure it is. It’s a simple contraction of “where have.”
Well, Internet is a proper noun, so it should be capitalized.
[sub]There is an ancient common usage where “internet” referred to any TCP/IP network which may or may not have been connected to the Internet, but nobody uses this term anymore.[/sub]
Mine used to have problems with all contractions, as it would use the apostrophe as a word separator. But I haven’t had that problem in a long time. But it still has to have every single contraction as a separate word, so of course the less common ones are going to be left out.
If it puts a whole red squiggly under a word, and I know it’s a real word (and I double check using Google), I right click and add it. The software works for me, not the other way around. There’s no reason I should have to put up with stupid squigglies.
That said, I’m still on the fence about removing words that are real that I don’t use when they are similar to others. It’s a more invasive change, as you have to edit the actual spelling text file. And really, is the ability to not accidentally use “cant” or “wont” really worth it?
Because it is that type of thread, I’ll break my no nitpicking rule and say this:
His name is Mr**.** Data, not Mr Data. In a spelling related thread, you ought to get that right
Found another; “there’ll” for “there will”.
My wife’s spellcheck at work does not recognize “definitely”. It changes it to “definately”. She works at a school.
Mister is a title. His name is Data.
Touche.
It’s a machine.
Its name is Mr. Data.
Isn’t that a matter of punctuation, rather than spelling? Maybe I should have said Lieutenant Commander Data.