Firefox's spellchecker is useless! Can it be improved?

esuhl

Animalistic. That's a word! Grrr!

esuhl

What about "whatever's" as a contraction of "whatever is"... As in:

I'll have whatever's left.

Surely that's a word... :undecided

kwikbreaks

You'll probably love http://phrontistery.info/
Reading through that may cause you to regulate your acrasial complaints about the ficulnean Firefox dictionary.

silverwhistle

esuhl wrote: »

Animalistic. That's a word! Grrr!

It is.. I'd love to see it in your context. :-)

[Deleted User]

silverwhistle wrote: »

It is.. I'd love to see it in your context. :-)

It could be used in context, but only in something like a sex scene, which would probably be so heavily censored, by the profanity filter, as to be unreadable.

esuhl

silverwhistle wrote: »

It is.. I'd love to see it in your context. :-)

Ha ha! I think i was describing the type of mental processes that occur below the level of consciousness -- like the "fight or flight" reflex. Something like that.

All perfectly innocent, I assure you!

kwikbreaks

Probably the Inuit dictionary gripes at anything that isn't a type of snow.

Robisere

I stopped worrying about spelling and 'Americanisms' a long time ago. When even my favourite computer forum, based and administered in Britain, wanted me to 'realize' instead of 'realise', I switched the forum spellchecker to the setting that allowed me to choose when to use it. Now I click Spellchecker and ignore anything I don't want to change. Firefox's spellchecker, I just don't bother with. I can read over what I type and correct as I wish.

Life is much too short to let things like that worry me. If I know that the target of my message can read it, that's OK by me.

esuhl

Robisere wrote: »

I stopped worrying about spelling and 'Americanisms' a long time ago. When even my favourite computer forum, based and administered in Britain, wanted me to 'realize' instead of 'realise', I switched the forum spellchecker to the setting that allowed me to choose when to use it.

Oh, I don't have a problem with Americanisms. The dictionary is set to British English in Firefox. But I've never come across a forum-based spellchecker. What forum was that? Are you sure it's not a browser feature?

Robisere wrote: »

Firefox's spellchecker, I just don't bother with. I can read over what I type and correct as I wish.

Life is much too short to let things like that worry me. If I know that the target of my message can read it, that's OK by me.

Fair enough, but I'm a bit of a perfectionist (when it suits me!). I refused to use spellcheckers for a long time, as I know how to spell and my English school teacher drummed it into me to look up words I didn't know in a dictionary! (Although I wilfully ignore her rules on commas, conjunctions and paragraphs to improve readability.)

But I also love technology. And, in this day-and-age... when we have voice-controlled virtual assistants that (kind-of) work, the idea of getting a decent dictionary for one of the most popular web browsers on the planet doesn't sound like it should be some kind of science-fiction vision of the future!

SnowTiger

Robisere wrote: »

I stopped worrying about spelling and 'Americanisms' a long time ago. When even my favourite computer forum, based and administered in Britain, wanted me to 'realize' instead of 'realise'...

http://grammarist.com/spelling/realise-realize/:

Realise and realize are different spellings of the same word, and both are used to varying degrees throughout the English-speaking world. Realize is the preferred spelling in American and Canadian English, and realise is preferred outside North America. The spelling distinction extends to all derivatives of the verb, including realised/realized, realising/realizing, and realisation/realization.

Although realize is now regarded by many in the U.K. and Australasia as the American spelling, it is not an Americanism. In fact, the -ize spelling variant is older than –ise—realize predates the United States and Canada by nearly two centuries—and has been the preferred spelling throughout most of the word’s history in English.