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The most confusing errors are the ones spellcheck doesn't catch because they transform a word into a valid word. But it's them that we want the least.
by generationP 1y ago
The most confusing errors are the ones spellcheck doesn't catch because they transform a word into a valid word. But it's them that we want the least.
- zem 1y agotrue, it wouldn't do a 100% job, but it would be another line of defense. the reason I was wondering about it was that the gp cited an example that was easy for humans to miss, but would be caught at once with a spell checker. there are also statistical methods to detect words that are changed into other, valid words - check out the grammar checker in google docs for instance. again, not 100%, but every bit helps.
- Wurdan 1y agoIt would probably also throw out a lot of false positives which would take time to check. Especially in works of fiction, writers could take liberties with non-standard spelling.