Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jared Daniel J. Smith" <> | Date | Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:56:59 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker |
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Regarding these two cautious comments:
========================================================================== I wouldn't go that far. Better give a list of speling mistakes (file/line) and fix them by hand. It won't need to be done more than occasionally, so the overhead is not too bad. --Dr. Horst H. von Brand
It might also be worth adding a list of 'suspect' spellings -- which require human intervention. Such items might include 'indices=indexes' and 'erratum=errata' although you can't do it automatically because sometimes the right-hand side is actually correct. --David Woodhouse ==========================================================================
I fully agree.
I have tried to automatically spell-check long, complex texts for years, with numerous algorithms; all of them fail for one reason or another, and I find that the only proper way to do it is the tedious work by hand.
Even a single lost pun because of overenthusiastic spellchecking is not worth the cleanup. I would prefer to see typos than lose a single intentional 'misspelling'. It would be best if you posted all changes somewhere so that they could be verified manually.
Consider the following:
alignment=alignement alignmement is French; is this intentional?
constants=konstants konstants is German; is this intentional?
consumer=comsumer comsumer is a neologism: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_5/henshall/
Converted=Coverted is it a pun on something 'hidden' or is it something transformed?
descriptor=decriptor,desciptor is it descriptor or decrypter?
invocation=invokation invokation is German; is this intentional?
negative=negativ negativ is a legitimate non-English word; is this intentional?
signaled=signalled signaling=Signalling signaling=signalling signalled is a legitimate alternate spelling of signaled.
succeeded=succeded succeded could also be a typo for 'succeed'
through=throught,throuth throught could also be a typo for 'thought'
writable=writeable writeable is a legitimate alternate spelling of writable
Thank you,
-Jared
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