Fw: Type->Re: [Seekers] Punishment
Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 22:38:06 -0500 (00889090686, 19980305033041.AAA11594@briandea)
MICHAEL
> MWF A belief in an internal state, accessible only to the individual.
Should be -> A belief _IS_ an internal . . .etc.
Need a smarter spell checker.
BRIDEAN
Speaking as a computer programmer this is not likely to happen. The way
a spell checker works is it takes a word and sees if it exists in a list of words
that the spell checker is using. Since "in" is an actual word it won't see it
as a spelling error. There are however, grammer checking programs that may
or may not catch such an error. It all depends on how the grammer checking
program is written. It might be interesting to get someone actually knowledgable
about such things (like Till) to try various grammer checking programs and see
how well they really do. My suspicion (I don't use a spell checker) is that
they are not all that good. Plus they take up a lot of processing time.