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samlowry2012-07-11 10:24:51
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samlowry, 2012-07-11 10:24:51

Why hasn't a single grammar nazi made a social spellchecker yet?

So I read poisonous excursions into the language of all sorts of Burmese, I look at how different spellcheckers work (but they work badly - there is no Internet slang and colloquial words in them at all, I have to teach), and I don’t understand: social spellchecker - nobody needs it?

A person added an underlined word - it went to the server, published in a queue (you can open it - everything is like in a wiki). There are Nazi Burmese sitting there. Resent or resent. They argue. The word passes / does not pass moderation. The rule is written.

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Nickel3000, 2012-07-11
@Nickel3000

Slang changes too fast.

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@sledopit, 2012-07-11
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A decent amount of serious problems looms on the horizon: as a rule, those who have at least some kind of spell checker write more or less correctly. Target audience (people with an insane amount of mistakes) will obviously not set such a spellchecker on purpose (since there is no usual one). If we are talking exclusively about the web, then you can try to embed spell checkers directly into the forms, but then you won’t be able to pull up a large dictionary. And also, “non-Katary tavaris noztoly niprovelnye spellings” that no spell checker can fix (fortunately, there are not so many such clinical cases).

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Nikolai Turnaviotov, 2012-07-11
@foxmuldercp

Normal spell checker built into chrome, in office suites. right now, the words “spell checker” are underlined in red “office”. IE doesn't check as far as I can see.
But I don’t see the point in teaching spell checker slang, just like T9 on the phone.

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fogx, 2012-07-11
@fogx

It is easy to manipulate the social spell checker, dragging various padonkaff slang and deliberately wrong spellings into it.

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Antelle, 2012-07-11
@Antelle

The idea is good, but I see several ambushes here:
1. you need to find competent people somewhere who will agree to sit there and moderate, and somehow you need to motivate them. In addition, trolls will come there, writing correctly, but nevertheless inserting all sorts of Ѣ and other nasty things. This also needs to be moderated somehow. The question is to whom, so that no one is offended and the spell checker does not get dirty.
2. you need to make a good API for it, rent servers, embed it in browsers, write plugins, and so on. Without spending resources on support, the spell checker will be of poor quality and will quickly die out of uselessness.

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spmbt, 2012-07-11
@spmbt

even colloquial words are not in bases!!! Sort of "snort". Or “chago?”, “chavoi?”, “what is that?”
There is a simple rule for these words: all errors are allowed in direct speech (or in quotation marks). In the author's speech, these are errors, so they are not in the databases.

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