I don't like Mako much, but working in Word on CTCS, I find myself wondering, to be fair, why it doesn't know his name. I mean, it's not like "mako" isn't a word. It's a kind of shark.

Meanwhile, it does know "Bolin". Go figure.

(Other real words it doesn't understand: "sponson", "offputting", and "mothership".)

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OpenOffice is no better, either. "avant-garde" is apparently not kosher for OO, but it would be fine if I changed that to "avast-garde" (what would that even be? Andy Warhol reincarnated as a pirate?), or Devanagari, which is apparently an alphabet used for writing Hindi and Sanskrit.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>(what would that even be? Andy Warhol reincarnated as a pirate?)

Arrr, every scurvy dog be famous fer fifteen minutes.

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>>(what would that even be? Andy Warhol reincarnated as a pirate?)
>Arrr, every scurvy dog be famous fer fifteen minutes.

Note to self: No longer to drink coffee while reading EPU Forums.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

>Note to self: No longer to drink coffee while reading EPU Forums.
>
>-- Bob

I would hope that it was more "almost destroyed a keyboard" with that, versus "almost destroyed my sinuses". Also, to not be drinking while reading here should have been self-evident years ago. ;)

>>(what would that even be? Andy Warhol reincarnated as a pirate?)
>
>Arrr, every scurvy dog be famous fer fifteen minutes.
>
>--G.

Pirate Warhol's most famous work would, doubtless, be the painting he did of 32 "O'Campbell's Rum" bottles.

I really want to make some kind of joke about "O'Campbell's Rum", but somebody already makes Whisky in a Can, so the joke might be on us all instead.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>(Other real words it doesn't understand: "sponson", "offputting", and
>"mothership".)

It's probably expecting offputting to be hyphenated ("off-putting"); that's how I usually see it rendered. And I believe mothership as a single word (as opposed to mother ship) is something of a neologism, so it's not surprising that Word doesn't like it. Sponson, though? Probably because it's an uncommon technical/trade term, and they're not as common in vessel design as pontoons or outriggers for the same purpose.

Hmm. I wonder. Bolin. Okay, Chrome's internal spellchecker doesn't know that one. Mako? Yeah, that gets wavy red underline too, which is weird.

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- Kenneth Boulding

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>Hmm. I wonder. Bolin. Okay, Chrome's internal spellchecker doesn't
>know that one.

Maybe Word has secretly spent its entire career waiting for someone to make reference to the late Tommy Bolin, guitarist for the James Gang and Deep Purple.

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>Hmm. I wonder. Bolin. Okay, Chrome's internal spellchecker doesn't
>know that one. Mako? Yeah, that gets wavy red underline too, which is
>weird.

As I don't use Chrome much, I need to ask, is it case sensitive? If you were testing on the words you just typed, it may be expecting them in all lower case and not proper case. I know that at least in some cases MS's all-invasive spell checker gets its digital panties in a knot over capitalization.

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Well, let's find out: bolin

As far as my system's concerned ( Fedora 20 / Chromium ) it doesn't like Bolin nor bolin.

>>Hmm. I wonder. Bolin. Okay, Chrome's internal spellchecker doesn't
>>know that one. Mako? Yeah, that gets wavy red underline too, which is
>>weird.
>
>As I don't use Chrome much, I need to ask, is it case sensitive? If
>you were testing on the words you just typed, it may be expecting them
>in all lower case and not proper case. I know that at least in some
>cases MS's all-invasive spell checker gets its digital panties in a
>knot over capitalization.

I know what you mean (since my employer is, to my eternal chagrin, standardized on Office and, because of our client base, unlikely to change in the foreseeable future), but, no, that's not one of Word's hangups. I mean, yes, it'll throw a red wavy line if you go all rANdOm caPITaliZation, but Mid-Sentence Capitalization doesn't trigger it.

(What bothers me about MS' autocorrection thingy is when I'm writing out code or command line stuff that should be all lower-case (save for possible CamelCase-ish function or variable names), and it'll automatically capitalize it.)

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"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding

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>(What bothers me about MS' autocorrection thingy is when I'm writing
>out code or command line stuff that should be all lower-case (save for
>possible CamelCase-ish function or variable names), and it'll
>automatically capitalize it.)

So... turn it off. All that stuff is turnoffable in Word - selectively, even. For instance, I'll have no truck with "smart quotes" or priggish capitalization "repair", but I'm happy to let it throw the accents on Dìqiú for me, superscript the "th" in "10^th", and convert 1/2 into ½ automatically.

One thing I've noticed, however, as I've been working on CTCS, is that I have an odd compulsive quirk. If I'm typing along and commit a typo, and see Word autocorrect it, I have to back up and fix it myself anyway. It's like I'm paying a little penance for being a sloppy typist. :)

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I am endlessly pleased that my iPhone correctly predicts the word Qapla'.

Mine picked up "Lovecraftian" with no fuss, and while I had to add "Earthdawn" manually, that is a proper noun, so that's understandable.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

I think iOS's autocompletion/autocorrection cares only about frequency of use. Both "sylvestris" and "Proginoskes" were automatically added to my iPhone's suggestion dictionary, even though the latter is a proper noun. What amuses me is the separation between iOS's autoco(mpletion|rrection) and its spellchecker. "You use this collection of letters enough that it's probably what you want, but I still don't think it's a real word."

Also briefly puzzled that Word knows "Tenzin", until I remembered that it's the 14th Dalai Lama's name.

--G.
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