[seqfan] Closing thread "spell check programs"

Olivier Gerard olivier.gerard at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 06:44:31 CEST 2015


This is really off-topic.

Please do not continue this thread.
If you are interested, you can always mail David Newman privately.


Olivier Gérard
Seqfan mailing list administrator




On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Alex Meiburg <timeroot.alex at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I tried this (in IE, in Gmail), and although it did highlight the word, it
> didn't offer any suggestions. Is this a question about what kind of
> algorithms spell checkers use to create their suggestions...?
>
> -- Alexander Meiburg
>
> 2015-07-01 16:39 GMT-07:00 David Newman <davidsnewman at gmail.com>:
>
> > I apologise if this posting is too far off topic, but I couldn't resist.
> >
> > One of the things that mathematicians do is to make substitutions and
> this
> > is what spell-check programs are meant to do.  Sometimes it is easy to
> see
> > what rules they are using, and sometimes the reason for a particular
> > suggested substitution is obscure to say the least.  I'd appreciate it if
> > anyone can give me an explanation for the following.  I was using the
> > Internet Explorer and the spell-check in gmail.  I wrote the word
> > "mepivacaine," which is the name of an anesthetic drug.  The spell check
> > program didn't like this word and made one suggestion for substitution,
> > which I won't reveal here.  If any of you would care to try this and
> report
> > the result to me, I'd appreciate it.  If anyone can explain this weird
> > behaviour I'd like to know.
> >
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