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May '08

Spell Cheque

   Posted by: lyle   in Customer Services, Cynicism, Thoughts

I’ve just had an email from an agency (that will remain nameless) describing…

This highly sort-after role

Of course, you know what they mean is sought-after , but that’s the joy of spell-checkers.

Maybe when someone writes a spell-checker that can work semantically from the words around it, and understands phonemes and the like, we might get somewhere closer. Thing is, that’d involve lots of AI, fuzzy logic, and nightmarish rule structures.

Or just, you know, education.

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I’ve just had an email containing 3 incorrectly placed apostrophes. From an independent school where the fees are £24K a year.

May 2nd, 2008 at 10:23

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