Re: Spelling, grammar and getting it right was Re: OFF TOPIC funny
- From: ellice <egirl22@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:04:15 GMT
On 2/22/09 8:53 PM, "Trish Brown" <pmcbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
lucille wrote:
Software spellcheckers are OK as far as it
goes, but the one in MSWord annoys me because it clearly has an
American accent! ;-D
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Trish Brown {|:-}
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Ya think maybe that's because the program was written by Americans, in
America?? lol
Well, yeah, but I'm not. (American, I mean). Someone Who Knows How needs
to write an Australian spellchecker for Australian misspellers. Y'know?
It needs to have words in it like 'dingo' and 'galah' and 'fair dinkum'
- words dear and useful to the Oz heart. I wonder if there's an
Icelandic spellchecker? Or Estonian? Or a Mandarin one? Indeed, I wonder
if you can *get* MSWord in Mandarin!?
Haven't you looked into uploading a different dictionary? I don't know
about the PC world of Word, but on the Mac side I can set my Word
preferences to other dictionaries. And I try to remember to check my custom
one regularly to remove words that are misspelled but were accidentally
added.
Don't get me wrong: Word's my all-time favourite program! It's so
stylish and intuitive and easy to use. I just wish we could get an
Oz-flavoured version, that's all.
I bet there is something out there. Word is definitely not my favorite
program, but it's certainly convenient. I use Quark when I can for setting
things that will be published - but it takes work to use Quark or the Adobe
graphics programs. However, once you learn them - what fun. I really,
really love Illustrator. Ah, well. Word has definitely improved over the
years - I did prefer WordPerfect back when, but now Word is fine for most
things.
Ellice
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