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[-] Banichan@dormi.zone 19 points 2 months ago

I correct the spell checker more than the spell checker corrects me

Yeah, I feel like even though it helps me sometimes it's probably just a wash.

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 12 points 2 months ago

On my phone? All the damn time, since I use a lot of jargon and shorthand that it doesn't understand, as well as a few neologisms. But, I'm a much worse typist on my phone.

On my Linux desktop or $dayjob's Windows laptop? Almost never, as it is much less aggressive about replacing what I typed.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

Depends on whether it thinks I'm living in America or not.

[-] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Do you mean color? No, no I do not.

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

All the time. Depending on the app and device, my spell checker might be set to American English, British English or Spanish. And I never check which before I start writing.

One quirk of not being a native speaker of English is that I don't really have a default spelling - colour or color, it depends on what the spellchecker says

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I'm American and am pretty inconsistent with some British vs American spellings. Definitely not with o vs ou, but I couldn't even tell you which I use more between gray and grey.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Disabled by default. Fuck that
And every other smart feature as well.
Basically it works like a regular old school desktop keyboard.

The most of auto-complete I am using is on the terminal to auto-complete commands.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Never. Turned that shit off. Don't need it. If I can't spell hippoospotiamus right now it's your problem not mine.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Often. Stupid work PC is set to US English while I use Australian English.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Let me guess, it keeps trying to tell you that cunt is unacceptable.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

na, it keeps saying I can't spell favourite and colour correctly.

[-] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

As a Canadian, same. And so much more.

Then you get people who spell with Canadian and American spelling and you wonder if you've been spelling things wrong or if once again, American culture is slipping in.

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I let auto carrot handle it and you decipher what I mean.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago
[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Less the spell checker and more the "swipe". If it pulls the wrong word based on my swipe, the suggestions it offers as alternatives are closer to the word it incorrectly picked vs other words similar to what I swiped. So fucking irritating.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

All the ducking time!

[-] ptc075@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

My company is European. Although all our templates are written in English, the check-language is set to Italian. So, pretty much every single word.

And yes, every time a new template comes out, we have to go through block by block and reset them to English. But even then a bunch slips through. Usually takes about a month to filter all the filters out.

[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

At this point its main function is adding apostrophes and tildes to words. About half the time it does that when it's not needed and needs correction. Eg. the first "its" in this comment.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's autocorrect, not a spellchecker.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Autocorrect is an automatic spellchecker (and sometimes grammar checker).

[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago

Is there a difference at this point? If it doesn't automatically correct you, you don't have to correct it back.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I turned mine off years ago because it was all the time.

although I get more irritated at grammar checkers.

[-] some_guy 2 points 2 months ago

I had a habit of letting the spellchecker alert me to misspellings but didn’t allow it to correct them. This was to teach me to figure out the correct spelling of difficult words. But now that so much typing is with thumbs on glass, I let it fix things for me (as well as incorrectly modify the word I intended) all the time. Still doing it the old way on a physical kbd, though.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'll never use a spell checker again. The last time, I ended up with my feet on backwards. That witch can't spell check shit.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Depends on the spellchecker/autocorrect. I know they are technically different because of how you interact with them, but autocorrect is just an automated spellchecker/grammar checker.

The spellchecker/grammar checker in my web browser on my desktop is great, barely need to fix anything and it brings things to my attention. It also tells me something is wrong, then I choose whether to do the correction.

The autocorrect on my phone is a steaming pile of crap that changes words into other words that it shouldn't, so I ended up turning it off because it wouldn't let me confirm a correct spelling for something that was close to another word.

So any typos in my posts will be due to doing it on a phone without a spellcheck, since I turned that off and my thumbs aren't as reliable as my fingers.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I use to write things for a sci-fi mud, so frequently I'd be adding things to the spellchecker. Usually I just have to correct things on the phone when it thinks I want wrote instead of write or the like.

[-] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Often, specifically the word colour, fedora doesn't have an option for Canadian English.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the Lingthusiasm episode where the Canadian and the Australian hosts discuss a book about the differences between British and American English. Both fell somewhere in between

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Often, specifically the word colour

I strongly suspect that whatever spellchecker you're using has the option to have a user dictionary of added words that you want it to accept.

EDIT: If you mean Fedora Linux, I don't know what program you're talking about.

I'd guess that it's either aspell or hunspell.

Hunspell doesn't seem to have a Canadian English Fedora package:

https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/hunspell-en/

Looking at the package file list, it looks like the files required for US English go in:

/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.aff

And:

/usr/share/hunspell/en_US.dic

But it does look like a Canadian English dictionary exists:

https://github.com/wooorm/dictionaries/tree/main/dictionaries/en-CA

I see an index.aff and index.dic there.

I don't know why Fedora wouldn't have a Canadian English hunspell dictionary package. Debian does:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/hunspell-en-ca

And Aspell does have Canadian English:

https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/aspell-en/aspell-en/

Provides the word list/dictionaries for the following: English, Canadian English, British English

this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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