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Relatable. For years, I aliased mroe to more. Now I alias mroe and more to less. My wife drafts a lot of legal documents, and has a problem with "doe snot".

Relatable. For years, I aliased mroe to more. Now I alias mroe and more to less. My wife drafts a lot of legal documents, and has a problem with "doe snot". Which unfortunately the spelling checker is perfectly happy with.

Singletoned 9y ago
There's defintitely room for an advanced spell checker that can say "This is valid, but probably wrong".
- polkijunk 9y ago
  defintitely
- salvar 9y ago
  Defiantly.
- deleted 9y ago
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- Ajedi32 9y ago
  The spell checker in Chrome can already do that to some extent. For example, "The men walked over their to grab they're food." gets corrected: https://i.imgur.com/NR4zyVA.png https://i.imgur.com/NR4zyVA.png
- goblin89 9y ago
  There’s at least one product trying to address the issue with “valid, but probably wrong” typos. It’s called Grammarly and for some unfathomable reason it gets advertised to me a lot on YouTube whenever Google detects I’m in South Korea; I believe they are seriously mistargeting their marketing efforts. (That said, if it were me, I’m not sure if I would give up typing doe snot every once in a while.)
- Fnoord 9y ago
  command-not-found [1] could implement that, if it isn't implemented already. I remember a Linux distribution with an application which would let a train pass in a few seconds after typing typical commands wrong. Trust me, you'll learn to type correct when that happens because it is very annoying. EDIT: as mentioned below, it is called 'sl' [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommandNotFoundMagic https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommandNotFoundMagic
- MikeTV 9y ago
  I just ran across Language Tool[0] recently. Free, open-source proofreading lib, can be run totally locally. Uses Google Ngrams to check for often confused words. Didn't correct "doe snot" in my synthetic test just now, but that seems like a plausibly minor extension of existing functionality. [0] https://www.languagetool.org/ https://www.languagetool.org/
- jbergens 9y ago
  The spelling checker in Word has some grammar rules, try to configure those if she uses Word.
vollmond 9y ago
My standard .bashrc aliases cd.. and cd- to the same thing with a space. Eliminating minor annoyances and focus-disruptors is great.

Singletoned 9y ago

There's defintitely room for an advanced spell checker that can say "This is valid, but probably wrong".

polkijunk 9y ago
defintitely
salvar 9y ago
Defiantly.
deleted 9y ago
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Ajedi32 9y ago
The spell checker in Chrome can already do that to some extent. For example, "The men walked over their to grab they're food." gets corrected: https://i.imgur.com/NR4zyVA.png https://i.imgur.com/NR4zyVA.png
goblin89 9y ago
There’s at least one product trying to address the issue with “valid, but probably wrong” typos. It’s called Grammarly and for some unfathomable reason it gets advertised to me a lot on YouTube whenever Google detects I’m in South Korea; I believe they are seriously mistargeting their marketing efforts. (That said, if it were me, I’m not sure if I would give up typing doe snot every once in a while.)
Fnoord 9y ago
command-not-found [1] could implement that, if it isn't implemented already. I remember a Linux distribution with an application which would let a train pass in a few seconds after typing typical commands wrong. Trust me, you'll learn to type correct when that happens because it is very annoying. EDIT: as mentioned below, it is called 'sl' [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommandNotFoundMagic https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommandNotFoundMagic
MikeTV 9y ago
I just ran across Language Tool[0] recently. Free, open-source proofreading lib, can be run totally locally. Uses Google Ngrams to check for often confused words. Didn't correct "doe snot" in my synthetic test just now, but that seems like a plausibly minor extension of existing functionality. [0] https://www.languagetool.org/ https://www.languagetool.org/
jbergens 9y ago
The spelling checker in Word has some grammar rules, try to configure those if she uses Word.

vollmond 9y ago

My standard .bashrc aliases cd.. and cd- to the same thing with a space. Eliminating minor annoyances and focus-disruptors is great.