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<blockquote data-quote="andrewcrawford" data-source="post: 772369" data-attributes="member: 370303"><p>hardly anyone believe that a spell checker does nto help, but i can assure it it doesn't the spell checker work on algorithms and use what you spell to give options, now there two problems to this, one sometimes depending on hwo you spell the word sometimes it gives say 10+ options because there is a lot of similar words, or because how you have spelt it it can not work out what your trying to spell because the spell checkers also use phontics to spells ie break the word down to syballes and sounds. i have acutally worked with some companies that make spell checkers since i do software development and i know how my brain works to try improve them but without making them very large complex programs it is impossiable because to acutally make a program that reads around the word ie looks at the context of teh senteance and what teh setenance is tryign to say so make the word easier to determine makes the spell checkers very large and even powerful computer slow down trying to process it in the end i advised teh company that the best to do was to improve what the algorithm was but it only provide a slight improvement not much that helps me. oh if anyone thinks it just down to me typing it wrong if that was the case why is it the same mistake happens in the same way? although some very few mistakes i make are down to typing and generally i do fix them because when i reread the thing i wrote it stands out the only reason i know there error in this is the spell checker is highlighting them 'impossiable' and 'phontics' that is a example of the spell checker giving weird options</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="andrewcrawford, post: 772369, member: 370303"] hardly anyone believe that a spell checker does nto help, but i can assure it it doesn't the spell checker work on algorithms and use what you spell to give options, now there two problems to this, one sometimes depending on hwo you spell the word sometimes it gives say 10+ options because there is a lot of similar words, or because how you have spelt it it can not work out what your trying to spell because the spell checkers also use phontics to spells ie break the word down to syballes and sounds. i have acutally worked with some companies that make spell checkers since i do software development and i know how my brain works to try improve them but without making them very large complex programs it is impossiable because to acutally make a program that reads around the word ie looks at the context of teh senteance and what teh setenance is tryign to say so make the word easier to determine makes the spell checkers very large and even powerful computer slow down trying to process it in the end i advised teh company that the best to do was to improve what the algorithm was but it only provide a slight improvement not much that helps me. oh if anyone thinks it just down to me typing it wrong if that was the case why is it the same mistake happens in the same way? although some very few mistakes i make are down to typing and generally i do fix them because when i reread the thing i wrote it stands out the only reason i know there error in this is the spell checker is highlighting them 'impossiable' and 'phontics' that is a example of the spell checker giving weird options [/QUOTE]

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