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Spelling Checker in Mail.app

Started byMatthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net>
First post2014-01-01 11:13 -0600
Last post2014-01-02 18:51 -0500
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  Spelling Checker in Mail.app Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2014-01-01 11:13 -0600
    Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-01 17:44 +0000
      Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-01 19:40 -0500
        Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-02 00:48 +0000
          Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-01 19:53 -0500
            Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-02 02:32 +0000
              Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-02 09:38 -0500
      Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2014-01-02 09:02 -0600
        Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2014-01-02 09:12 -0600
          Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-02 16:46 +0000
        Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-02 16:48 +0000
      Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-02 17:04 +0000
        Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-02 12:18 -0500
          Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-03 19:51 +0000
            Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-03 14:58 -0500
            Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app AV3 <arvimide@earthlink.net> - 2014-01-03 18:29 -0500
              Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-04 13:15 +0000
                Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app AV3 <arvimide@earthlink.net> - 2014-01-04 11:05 -0500
                  Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-05 13:05 +0000
        Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-03 08:03 +1100
          Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-03 19:51 +0000
            Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-04 08:17 +1100
              Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-01-04 15:31 +0000
                Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-04 16:03 +0000
        Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-02 23:31 +0000
          Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-03 20:34 +0000
            Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-03 16:38 -0500
              Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-04 13:15 +0000
            Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-04 17:40 +0000
              Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-05 13:05 +0000
        Re: Spelling Checker in Mail.app PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2014-01-02 18:51 -0500

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#20325

FromErilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
Date2014-01-03 19:51 +0000
Message-ID<la74cf$qt1$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#20321
dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> In article <la466k$ejf$2@dont-email.me>,
>  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> 
>> instead of just underlining beyond its limited vocabulary
> 
> Talking of which, I have always admired the way Google can come up 
> with the word you want from the abortion you type, a task the limited 
> formal dictionary-governed spell-checkers of so many apps.

Google seems to be much better at it than the spell-destroyer that came
with the iPad 8-)

-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

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#20330

Fromdorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com>
Date2014-01-04 08:17 +1100
Message-ID<do_ray_me-78A8BA.08171104012014@news.albasani.net>
In reply to#20325
In article <la74cf$qt1$1@dont-email.me>,
 Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:

> dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> > In article <la466k$ejf$2@dont-email.me>,
> >  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> > 
> >> instead of just underlining beyond its limited vocabulary
> > 
> > Talking of which, I have always admired the way Google can come up 
> > with the word you want from the abortion you type, a task the limited 
> > formal dictionary-governed spell-checkers of so many apps fail in.
> 
> Google seems to be much better at it than the spell-destroyer that came
> with the iPad 8-)

Indeed.

-- 
dorayme

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#20344

FromTom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com>
Date2014-01-04 15:31 +0000
Message-ID<biqnq0F35t7U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#20330
On 2014-01-03, dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> In article <la74cf$qt1$1@dont-email.me>,
>  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>
>> dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> > In article <la466k$ejf$2@dont-email.me>,
>> >  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> instead of just underlining beyond its limited vocabulary
>> >
>> > Talking of which, I have always admired the way Google can come up
>> > with the word you want from the abortion you type, a task the limited
>> > formal dictionary-governed spell-checkers of so many apps fail in.
>>
>> Google seems to be much better at it than the spell-destroyer that came
>> with the iPad 8-)
>
> Indeed.
>
I've strarted using the term "correcto" as a companion to "typo" to describe the
many errors I make using Apple's implementation.

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#20345

FromTim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Date2014-01-04 16:03 +0000
Message-ID<040120141603067374%timstreater@greenbee.net>
In reply to#20344
In article <biqnq0F35t7U1@mid.individual.net>, Tom Stiller
<clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2014-01-03, dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> > In article <la74cf$qt1$1@dont-email.me>,
> >  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> >
> >> dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> >> > In article <la466k$ejf$2@dont-email.me>,
> >> >  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> instead of just underlining beyond its limited vocabulary
> >> >
> >> > Talking of which, I have always admired the way Google can come up
> >> > with the word you want from the abortion you type, a task the limited
> >> > formal dictionary-governed spell-checkers of so many apps fail in.
> >>
> >> Google seems to be much better at it than the spell-destroyer that came
> >> with the iPad 8-)
> >
> > Indeed.
> >
> I've started using the term "correcto" as a companion to "typo" to describe
> the many errors I make using Apple's implementation.

I've turned off the correcting thingy in Safari. It just caused extra
errors to creep in, too much of the time.

-- 
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to
 lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores 
 the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them
 into it in the first place."                             - Douglas Adams

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#20322

FromLewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Date2014-01-02 23:31 +0000
Message-ID<slrnlcbtn8.1cup.g.kreme@amelia.local>
In reply to#20319
In message <la466k$ejf$2@dont-email.me> 
  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>> In article <lybanon-65107C.11131101012014@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net>,
>> Matthew Lybanon  <lybanon@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I understand that it probably just looks like one continuous block of 
>>> text to the spelling checker.  But does anybody know of some secret 
>>> flag, or something, that can tell the spelling checker to restrict its 
>>> search to only the text that I type?
>> 
>> What is the problem with it checking quoted text? Does it slow down
>> the spellchecking? Do the underlined words annoy you? Something else?
>> 
>> 
>> Patty

> I was wondering the same. If the spellchecker on the iPad just underlined

This isn't the iPad newsgroup.

-- 
Competent? How are we going to compete with that?

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#20328

FromErilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
Date2014-01-03 20:34 +0000
Message-ID<la76t5$c7u$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#20322
Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <la466k$ejf$2@dont-email.me> 
>   Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>> Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>>> In article <lybanon-65107C.11131101012014@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net>,
>>> Matthew Lybanon  <lybanon@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I understand that it probably just looks like one continuous block of 
>>>> text to the spelling checker.  But does anybody know of some secret 
>>>> flag, or something, that can tell the spelling checker to restrict its 
>>>> search to only the text that I type?
>>> 
>>> What is the problem with it checking quoted text? Does it slow down
>>> the spellchecking? Do the underlined words annoy you? Something else?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Patty
> 
>> I was wondering the same. If the spellchecker on the iPad just underlined
> 
> This isn't the iPad newsgroup.

It's an Apple product as is every computer i'm familiar with.  It uses many
of the same programs, including Mail.

-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

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#20331

Fromnospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Date2014-01-03 16:38 -0500
Message-ID<030120141638541524%nospam@nospam.invalid>
In reply to#20328
In article <la76t5$c7u$1@dont-email.me>, Erilar
<drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:

> >> I was wondering the same. If the spellchecker on the iPad just underlined
> > 
> > This isn't the iPad newsgroup.
> 
> It's an Apple product as is every computer i'm familiar with.  It uses many
> of the same programs, including Mail.

the names may be the same but the apps are different.

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#20341

FromErilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
Date2014-01-04 13:15 +0000
Message-ID<la91h3$tdh$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#20331
nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <la76t5$c7u$1@dont-email.me>, Erilar
> <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> 
>>>> I was wondering the same. If the spellchecker on the iPad just underlined
>>> 
>>> This isn't the iPad newsgroup.
>> 
>> It's an Apple product as is every computer i'm familiar with.  It uses many
>> of the same programs, including Mail.
> 
> the names may be the same but the apps are different.

Well, the same mail appears on both laptop and iPad 8-)
-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

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#20347

FromLewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Date2014-01-04 17:40 +0000
Message-ID<slrnlcght1.7cf.g.kreme@amelia.local>
In reply to#20328
In message <la76t5$c7u$1@dont-email.me> 
  Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <la466k$ejf$2@dont-email.me> 
>>   Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>>> Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>>>> In article <lybanon-65107C.11131101012014@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net>,
>>>> Matthew Lybanon  <lybanon@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I understand that it probably just looks like one continuous block of 
>>>>> text to the spelling checker.  But does anybody know of some secret 
>>>>> flag, or something, that can tell the spelling checker to restrict its 
>>>>> search to only the text that I type?
>>>> 
>>>> What is the problem with it checking quoted text? Does it slow down
>>>> the spellchecking? Do the underlined words annoy you? Something else?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Patty
>> 
>>> I was wondering the same. If the spellchecker on the iPad just underlined
>> 
>> This isn't the iPad newsgroup.

> It's an Apple product as is every computer i'm familiar with.  It uses many
> of the same programs, including Mail.

The iPad mail program is in no way the "same" as the OS X mail program.


-- 
I'm just going to go home, lie down, and listen to country
music. The music of pain.

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#20355

FromErilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid>
Date2014-01-05 13:05 +0000
Message-ID<lablaf$q5$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#20347
Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <la76t5$c7u$1@dont-email.me> 
>   Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> In message <la466k$ejf$2@dont-email.me> 
>>>   Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>>>> Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <lybanon-65107C.11131101012014@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net>,
>>>>> Matthew Lybanon  <lybanon@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I understand that it probably just looks like one continuous block of 
>>>>>> text to the spelling checker.  But does anybody know of some secret 
>>>>>> flag, or something, that can tell the spelling checker to restrict its 
>>>>>> search to only the text that I type?
>>>>> 
>>>>> What is the problem with it checking quoted text? Does it slow down
>>>>> the spellchecking? Do the underlined words annoy you? Something else?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Patty
>>> 
>>>> I was wondering the same. If the spellchecker on the iPad just underlined
>>> 
>>> This isn't the iPad newsgroup.
> 
>> It's an Apple product as is every computer i'm familiar with.  It uses many
>> of the same programs, including Mail.
> 
> The iPad mail program is in no way the "same" as the OS X mail program.
> 

You've never heard of thread drift?  I diverted this one by comparing Apple
spell-checkers.  It's a lot milder than diversion to MS products.

-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

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#20323

FromPhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net>
Date2014-01-02 18:51 -0500
Message-ID<la4u2e$aj8$1@news.albasani.net>
In reply to#20319
Erilar wrote:
> Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>> In article <lybanon-65107C.11131101012014@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net>,
>> Matthew Lybanon  <lybanon@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I understand that it probably just looks like one continuous block of
>>> text to the spelling checker.  But does anybody know of some secret
>>> flag, or something, that can tell the spelling checker to restrict its
>>> search to only the text that I type?
>>
>> What is the problem with it checking quoted text? Does it slow down
>> the spellchecking? Do the underlined words annoy you? Something else?
>>
>>
>> Patty
>
> I was wondering the same. If the spellchecker on the iPad just underlined
> words, I could use it to catch typos, but it kept inserting out and out
> mistakes instead of just underlining beyond its limited vocabulary.  I had
> to turn it off.  The underlining on my laptop doesn't bother me. Of course,
> it gets carried away when I type something in another language 8-)
>
If you can Turn off Suggest spelling

-- 
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.      "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net    mailto:pjonescet@comcast.net

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