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spankmepink11 -> RE: G/grammar (5/16/2007 6:42:26 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aswad
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ORIGINAL: spankmepink11
There is a spell check option for anyone who cares to use it when writing a post.
That doesn't show up in my browser.
Is it set for British, American, Canadian, Australian, or some other flavo(u)r of English?
And, what nationality of dyslexia is it intended to compensate for?
Realize that the transition to romanized vowels ("The Great Vowel Shift") in English, along with the elimination of some consonants from the alphabet, folding at least fifty-something sounds into 26 characters, made it so that anyone not speaking a romanized language with similar diphthong-conventions may have a lot of trouble with it.
Compensating for dyslexia is very hard, as even distinguishing between the options for alternate spellings can be impossible for many, and computers don't generally do very well at regular spell checking; in fact, computerized spell-checking has been accused of introducing several new kinds of typing errors.
Consider that it took Norway's leading centre for research into the Norwegian language about a decade to develop a dyslexia-aware spell checker for that language, and that doesn't cover English at all. It's not a lack of interest, it's just very hard to do.
When you try to cross the barrier of dyslexia, then the barrier of a second language, then the barrier of that language having what amounts to a different set of phonemes mapped onto the smaller latin alphabet in a relation that is many-to-one, then it gets complicated fast.
Being a spelling nazi in such a scenario isn't perfectionism or pedantery, both of which I understand, and condone to some extent (or I wouldn't be doing it), it's simply elitism.
I'm not sure if you're quoting me for example sake, or implying that i'm an "elitist spelling nazi".
On my version of CM, in the message browser, there is a little check mark, with letters above it. This is the only version i know of, so it's the only version i can comment on.
As far as effectiveness for dyslexics, i actually wondered about that when i posted. I pretty much trust that the suggested replacement word is correct.
I appreciate the information you provided, but i didn't state an opinion one way or another. If you've ever read anything that I've posted, you'd find that i have never chided someone for poor spelling.
The only person who's spelling i police, is my own.
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