Another Newbie Question

[Jeremy Fowler]

> > That's what I get for not paying closer attention to spell check...
>
> 	Actually, spell check wouldn't have caught it, as defiantly was spelled
> correctly.  What we need is a context spell checker that lets us know when
> we have improperly used a homophone or have used a correctly spelled word
> out of context.

I agree with you on the out of context words, but how would it know if your
phone is gay or not? ;-)

Kidding... What's the difference between a homonym and a homophone?

Well, actually I must have spelled the word wrong and accepted the first correct
word it gave me. I didn't pay close enough attention to notice that was the
correct spelling for a different word.

However, your idea of a grammar checker is cool..  It would have to check
context with the entire paragraph, not just the sentence, and rate the words
used with some kind of probability equation. It would be really cool to mix a
grammar engine like that with some of the translator engines (Babelfish). Then
you could essentially write an entire document in English, run it thru the
translator/grammar engine, and out comes a grammatically correct document in
whatever language you needed. ...Or, you create an English document in your Word
Processor (OpenOffice) and it saves the file in an XML based universal
Meta-Language. Then when you send the document to say someone in Germany, the
universal Meta-language is used to construct a grammatically correct German
document, or whatever language your document viewer is set to. Just a dream'n...