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| 1123.1 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Sun Dec 04 1994 16:29 | 2 |
| Too bad the famed "grammer checker" of yore ran on a different
operating system....
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| 1123.2 | | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | Cyberian-American | Sun Dec 04 1994 18:18 | 2 |
| Said fame has not spread to these precincts. Tell us more?
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| 1123.3 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Mon Dec 05 1994 16:40 | 5 |
| Huh? Everything I know about Digital's attempt at a grammar checker,
including its original designation of "grammer checker," came from
this very conference.
-- Norman Diamond
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| 1123.4 | | RICKS::PHIPPS | DTN 225.4959 | Tue Dec 06 1994 05:27 | 1 |
| VAX Grammar Checker ABBOTT::GRAMMAR_CHECKER 2031
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| 1123.5 | operator error and spell-check wisdom | AKOCOA::MACDONALD | | Tue Dec 06 1994 09:54 | 10 |
| This reply should perhaps better go into a separate discussion, since it
points up what is more of an operator error than a spell-checker error,
but anyway--. I was using the MS-Word spell checker on a longish
marketing document a year or so ago and was both amused, and astonished
that the spell-checker suggested that for "seamless", I might want to
substitute "shameless". I laughed and laughed, since, I would have to
agree, my use ( and our overuse) of the word was perhaps in some sense
"shameless." The dumb spell-checker seemed at that moment to possess
a wisdom that I lacked.
Bruce
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| 1123.6 | | SEND::PARODI | John H. Parodi DTN 381-1640 | Tue Dec 06 1994 11:27 | 6 |
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I remember that the VAX/VMS spell checker once suggested I change the
VMS command qualifier /NOSAME (don't ask) to /NAUSEUM. I could but
agree.
JP
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| 1123.7 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Tue Dec 13 1994 09:11 | 3 |
| There was an interesting spellchecker error in a notesfile a while ago.
The noter mentioned BayBank, a large Massachusetts bank. The spellchecker
corrected it to "bubonic."
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| 1123.8 | | SMURF::BINDER | vitam gustare | Wed Dec 14 1994 05:29 | 2 |
| ...and you call that an error??? I'd call that the operation of an
unusually perceptive spelling checker program! :-)
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| 1123.9 | Light blue touchpaper and run... | PEKING::SULLIVAND | Dumb terminal | Fri Dec 16 1994 05:08 | 10 |
| I wrote a memo and included a Welsh phrase in it. I spell-checked the
memo and WPS-PLUS said "Initializing Houghton Mifflin British Spell
Checker" (approximately). It then proceded to reject all the Welsh
words !
Welsh IS British ! AngloSaxons go home !
(We have a couple of people here called Alan Punnett and Barry Robson;
at various times they have been spellchecked into Alien Peanut and
Barmy Robot)
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| 1123.10 | | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | I'm webbish but I'm no nebbish! | Fri Dec 16 1994 07:17 | 9 |
| The wonderful thing about such technology-spawned neologisms is that
they tend, because of their silicon etymology I s'pose, to be adopted
and kept around for awhile. I suspect that Messrs. Punnett and Robson
have by now discovered this. On the audio side, my kids and I were
playing with Macintalk about 6 years ago, by typing in semi-random
ARPAbet phonemes into its speech synthesizer. This succeeded in having
the Mac "address" one of them whose input it was as "Frog Maiden" and
this recurs, in moments of hysteria, to this day! :-)
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| 1123.11 | This just in from my wife... | DRDAN::KALIKOW | MindSurf the World w/ AltaVista! | Fri Jun 07 1996 10:16 | 10 |
| "I wanted to share with you what I think may be the best spell
checker substitution suggestion ever! I'm typing up my notes for
my journal of our trip to Turkey, and I was writing about
appetizers in a restaurant. The silly thing wants to replace
aubergines with aborigines! It gives me a hysterical mental image
just thinking about it!"
Will some public-spirited soul work this into the Limerick Addition
Football note please? Thx EVER so. :-)
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