Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: |> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:50:48 +0100 |> From: Steffen Nurpmeso <sdao...@yandex.com> |> |> Doug McIlroy <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote: |>|* For a ludicrous example, when I type my own name, |>| M. Douglas McIlroy |>|at the beginning of a line--as for a signature or author line-- |>|Open Office thinks that I've begun a paragraph numbered with |>|a Roman numeral, and proceeds to tack "MI." onto the beginning |>|of the next line! |>| |>|Groff has blessidly little AI. Let's keep it so. |> |> This example is terrible | |Let's keep this in proportion: the problem is not as horrible as it |might sound. More often than not, this "auto-correction" feature is |very good, it fixes minor typos like exchanging letters, failure to |start a sentence from a capital letter, etc. When it goes bad, you |can always insist on your spelling, and you can selectively turn off |some of the more "viral" correction types.
I never used such things. I do not even use aspell i think is its name. I am using dictionary lookups because my English has become even worse than my German over time :(, i really had to stay some time in an English speaking country to improve that again, but if i am making faults then, well, i am making faults. Noone is perfect. But right. I give a shit on shiny happy correct text if its artificial. I also don't use Prozac to make a good and energetic impression. I wouldn't freeze ovocytes since i'm always happy to see free cows with their bull on a pasture, some of the latter are real gentleman. At least more or less. Things are different in books, but unfortunately lecturers are paid very badly (even though the Schröder / Fischer admin. established minimum wages). Luckily a lot of wifes seem to be able to afford doing good translation and lecturing, because otherwise the remaining good publishers would possibly vanish, too. Just my one cent. --steffen
