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    Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary

    Water Closet
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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
                    last edited by

                    @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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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        Firefox Dictionary Fail: Tilapia

                        WTF FF!!

                        It knows it's a dirty fish and wants nothing to do with it 😛

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                        • gjacobseG
                          gjacobse @Dashrender
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                          @Dashrender said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          Firefox Dictionary Fail: Tilapia

                          WTF FF!!

                          It knows it's a dirty fish and wants nothing to do with it 😛

                          Might be a 'dirty' fish,.. but it is a robust fish that is farmed in many Hydro and Aquaponic systems.

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                          • Reid CooperR
                            Reid Cooper @gjacobse
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                            @g.jacobse said:

                            Might be a 'dirty' fish,.. but it is a robust fish that is farmed in many Hydro and Aquaponic systems.

                            Because they have effective poo.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Another one from Firefox: attritioning

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                Another one missing from Firefox: idempotence.

                                Important word in IT and in mathematics.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  Firefox missing: tilapia

                                  Seriously, how can that be!!

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    Firefox: impactful

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                                    • RojoLocoR
                                      RojoLoco @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      Firefox missing: tilapia

                                      Seriously, how can that be!!

                                      Did you check to see if the americanized misspelling 'tiliapa' is in there? Or 'chipolte'?

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                                      • dafyreD
                                        dafyre @RojoLoco
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                                        @RojoLoco I'm an American, and I've never seen tilapia spelled tiliapa 8-)... If you have, maybe there's a bunch of folks making a typo somewhere, lol.

                                        I've seen Chipotle spelled both ways here... which one is right?

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                                        • MattSpellerM
                                          MattSpeller @RojoLoco
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                                          @RojoLoco said:

                                          'chipolte'?

                                          chip - ol - te?

                                          chi - pol - te?

                                          weird.

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                                          • RojoLocoR
                                            RojoLoco @dafyre
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                                            @dafyre said:

                                            @RojoLoco I'm an American, and I've never seen tilapia spelled tiliapa 8-)... If you have, maybe there's a bunch of folks making a typo somewhere, lol.

                                            I've seen Chipotle spelled both ways here... which one is right?

                                            Well, I did grow up in Georgia, so I should have said Southern American... 😉 and the correct spelling is chipotle. The 'tl' consonant cluster is indicative of the old Aztec Nahuatl language, before the influence of European Spanish.
                                            (see, there's a 'tl' at the end of Nahuatl...)

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