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    Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary

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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @nadnerB
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      @nadnerB said:

      Should you send your list to Google?

      One would assume that Chrome would send back all local additions to the spell check list and eventually Google algorithms would update all users after a threshold of some type.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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        @JaredBusch Hopefully they do that, but it seems that if they were doing that they would have a lot more common words all ready.

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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch
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          really? walkable?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            Wow, that's a big one to have missed.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              And today: curation

              Really? How is curation not in there?

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              • gjacobseG
                gjacobse @JaredBusch
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                @JaredBusch Ya know... for a half minute I thought your were picking on my ability to articulate the English language.... I HAD to GOOGLE walkable to see if I had indeed not created some atrocious word hack.

                Alas - walkable is a word...

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  Walkable is a very common word, in fact.

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                  • thanksajdotcomT
                    thanksajdotcom
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                    Aggregator...

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                    • ?
                      A Former User
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                      What I don't get is why the spell checkers don't tap into the power of google. for example sometimes I may misspell a work, chrome (and other apps) won't have a suggestion, yet if I type it into google it will have the "Showing results for:" with the correct spelling.

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                      • thanksajdotcomT
                        thanksajdotcom @A Former User
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                        @thecreativeone91 said:

                        What I don't get is why the spell checkers don't tap into the power of google. for example sometimes I may misspell a work, chrome (and other apps) won't have a suggestion, yet if I type it into google it will have the "Showing results for:" with the correct spelling.

                        No API for it?

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                          @thecreativeone91 said:

                          What I don't get is why the spell checkers don't tap into the power of google. for example sometimes I may misspell a work, chrome (and other apps) won't have a suggestion, yet if I type it into google it will have the "Showing results for:" with the correct spelling.

                          Especially Chrome!!

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                          • nadnerBN
                            nadnerB
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                            For the amount of Google in Chrome, it seems to have missed key cloudiness and connectivity to make it more useful/accurate

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              That's got to be a challenge, though, as the average use on the Internet is incorrect and you would not want it creeping into the spellchecker. All kinds of bad drift in the language would happen. You don't want students failing school because the Google spellchecker has decided that the rantings of the uneducated masses outrank dictionary spellings.

                              There are other arguments for dictionary versus common spellings to be made, but in the case of the former you want a spellchecker, in the latter case you don't care.

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                              • nadnerBN
                                nadnerB
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                                Word building follows rules and certain structures. Surely they could program something to follow the rules and create every possible combination of words that are current/past.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @nadnerB
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                                  @nadnerB said:

                                  Word building follows rules and certain structures. Surely they could program something to follow the rules and create every possible combination of words that are current/past.

                                  Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the spellchecker? You'd get every option for every word, which is not what people want. They want a subset of spellings considered "correct" for their own usage. Not past spellings or words spelled on rules.

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                                  • nadnerBN
                                    nadnerB
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                                    Nope, not if you add some kind of contextual awareness, a bit of NSA and a few priacy policies.
                                    ...
                                    Yeah, it might not be as awesome as described, but your milage may vary 😛

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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch
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                                      wtf...

                                      wtf

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        Ouch.

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                                        • nadnerBN
                                          nadnerB @JaredBusch
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                                          @JaredBusch said:

                                          wtf...

                                          wtf

                                          Geek cred -2 points.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            Firefox Dictionary Fail: Tilapia

                                            WTF FF!!

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