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Never thought about the problem of compound words like that before. Every time I read about this problem I'm impressed about the solutions; but I'm also reminde
by bjarneh 6y ago
Never thought about the problem of compound words like that before. Every time I read about this problem I'm impressed about the solutions; but I'm also reminded of a comment that I think I saw on Reddit.
> Learn how to spell, or use a spell-checker!
Why would I use a spell-checker, am I Gandalf?
- taneq 6y agoReally, what we want isn't a spell-checker at all, but an intention-checker. "Does what you wrote locally seem to be consistent with the intention of your overall document?" But of course, something that actually worked like that would be indistinguishable from magic.
- bjarneh 6y agoThat certainly seems like a complex problem to solve :-)
- Anthony-G 6y agoI'm so used to abutocompletion in Bash that sometimes I hit the Tab key after typing the first few characters of the argument to the `mkdir` command. The computer responds by beeping at me to remind me that it can't read my mind.