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Yet in 2022 spell checking is still not good, at least when it comes to ordinary software. It checks with dictionaries, it seems that recently Google Chrome bec

Yet in 2022 spell checking is still not good, at least when it comes to ordinary software. It checks with dictionaries, it seems that recently Google Chrome became a little bit better at it, but still I can completely write gibberish random with order words of and it wud no car as long as separate words are present in the dictionary. And that's while there's AI which generates awesome texts around. I don't know English well, but one single thing that immensely helps me memorizing English is instant feedback when I'm writing texts with errors. I bet that good spell checker in Chrome would do much more to the world than many English courses (also helps with any other language, of course, but English is special as it's world's lingua franca nowadays).

jltsiren 4y ago
It feels like spell checking was better in the 2000s than it is today. It probably wasn't, but it didn't feel so annoying because it was not that prevalent. With the spellcheckers Google and Apple are using, it's rare that I can write a full paragraph of Finnish without them flagging something incorrectly. Whatever methods they are using, they seem to be incapable of handling cases, conjugation, and compound words. Which is ironic, since early Finnish spellcheckers were surprisingly good. There was a lot of research on those topics in Finland in the 80s and 90s, and early spellcheckers took advantage of that.
kevincox 4y ago
I think Chrome uses a Google service by default. FWIW I have found Google Search's spell checker fantastic. (At least for English) It seems to have a better concept of sound similarity or something that means it almost always guesses the word I mean (extra impressive because on Google Search it only shows you one suggestion). I frequently find myself in a situation where Firefox's (local) checker can't figure out what word I meant so I put it into Google Search and it nearly always knows what I meant.

jltsiren 4y ago

It feels like spell checking was better in the 2000s than it is today. It probably wasn't, but it didn't feel so annoying because it was not that prevalent. With the spellcheckers Google and Apple are using, it's rare that I can write a full paragraph of Finnish without them flagging something incorrectly. Whatever methods they are using, they seem to be incapable of handling cases, conjugation, and compound words. Which is ironic, since early Finnish spellcheckers were surprisingly good. There was a lot of research on those topics in Finland in the 80s and 90s, and early spellcheckers took advantage of that.

kevincox 4y ago

I think Chrome uses a Google service by default. FWIW I have found Google Search's spell checker fantastic. (At least for English) It seems to have a better concept of sound similarity or something that means it almost always guesses the word I mean (extra impressive because on Google Search it only shows you one suggestion). I frequently find myself in a situation where Firefox's (local) checker can't figure out what word I meant so I put it into Google Search and it nearly always knows what I meant.