johno: (surprised)
johno ([personal profile] johno) wrote2006-01-06 12:34 pm

Hmmm...  Things you find on the way to other things...

Spell check in thunderbird stopped on:

xocolatl

and offered as a substitute:

chocolate


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Semagic's spell check just offered:

chocolaty


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both are very smart spell checkers.

[identity profile] runeshower.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd think that if those spell checkers were smart enough to recognize xocolatl as being chocolate, they would have left the original word alone!

[identity profile] cambler.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Interestingly, my contextual parser correctly identified "atl" as the root that it is, and suggested the appropriate root word.

But then what are the odds that someone would have a contextual parser that understands the root language? :-)

[identity profile] kitabare.livejournal.com 2006-01-07 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
heh