CodeProject challenges

[Pete OHanlon]

It's automatic speech correction that he's after, not spell checking. So, you'd want to correct text speech from things like ur to your.

[MacSpudster]

Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work. "yeah, that means the lot of you" is more accurate. Though, that may get confused with "yeah, that means allot of you," which implies not the whole "lot of us," of which my using 'the whole "lot"' might further confuse others to discern I mean "a whole lot" which, like "allot of you," doesn't mean the whole "lot of you" that "lot" is describing, which is the whole of us. So, now you (the singular "you," you being the reader, of which, when there is more than a singular "you" reader, collectively, all you readers would also be the "lot of you" readers, though not the lot of you the original "lot of you" denotes) know. :-D

[PIEBALDconsult]

Ah, so you're trying to kill a few more kittens. Carry on.

[Mark_Wallace]

It wouldn't take me an hour to write a "Reject" button that sends an e-mail saying "Clean up your language use, or it won't be published". Attempts to automate language corrections normally end up creating as many problems as they solve (e.g. how many amongst us have ever used "i" as a loop-control variable or a tag to indicate italicisation?)

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[Lost User]

There are some dictionary based libraries like this one: https://code.google.com/p/bjspell/downloads/detail?name=BJSpell.js&can=2&q=[^] that can be forked maybe.

[Chris Maunder]

If it were easy it wouldn't be a challenge.

cheers Chris Maunder

[JMK NI]

You firing it up onto Github or something? If so, I'll definitely throw a few hours at it :)

[Chris Maunder]

MacSpudster wrote:

Oh, and of your phrase "yeah, that means you lot," it doesn't work.

It's technically correct and perfect grammar when speaking Australian.

cheers Chris Maunder

[MacSpudster]

My point exactly! The contest, er project specs, could include the option to qualify which language/nation the author is "typing" in. Or, perhaps, submit for 'inclusion' into a back-end repository of acceptable words and/or phrases. Then again, there would likely be hourly, nay, minutely submissions of "Plz accept 'plz' as an acceptable word". :doh:

[Lost User]

Is it just me or is this just a semi-respectable way of getting us to do your work? ;P "Gee Huck, Gee Becky... whitewashing this fence sure is fun!"

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[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wa[^]

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[dandy72]

The grammar Nazi in me would make it a three-strike rule. And if you write "urgentz", the account gets suspended for a day. :-p

[Sander Rossel]

Chris Maunder wrote:

I'm not after spell-ckecking

Obviously :rolleyes:

It's an OO world.

public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}

[Sander Rossel]

So "gimme code plz" will be auto-corrected to "Give me code please"? That will be an improvement :rolleyes: Seriously though, I wonder how much can really be corrected? Such a library has to be very 'smart' to fix some of the stuff I read on CP (luckily there's more good than bad though!). If someone doesn't value grammar can they form correct sentences? im sure this sentence couldve been fixed. but this sentense may it can be fixed, srry for my bad english?

It's an OO world.

public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}

[Jeremy Falcon]

Mike Mullikin wrote:

Is it just me or is this just a semi-respectable way of getting us to do your work?

:laugh:

Jeremy Falcon

[Dan Neely]

I'm not going to make a full submission; but want to suggest that anyone serious about it be sure to implement this family of fixes (only one example given because I'm a slacker):

str.replace("I have got", "I've <b>GOTTEN</b>");

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[Lost User]

I'd personally put it in the 'too hard' basket - just because the complexity blows my mind. But I applaud the idea - bad grammar is something up with which I will not put.

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[Gary R Wheeler]

<FlagellatingTheExpiredEquine> The must be an off switch, and it must stay off. Spelling checkers are an abomination, and grammar checkers are worse. For every case where they find I've made an error, they come up with 100's of false positives to annoy me. While the grammar checker in Microsoft Word (for example) can be tailored, it takes too much work for far too little result. Bitch at me about dangling participles (bad habit1) and passive voice (bad habit2), and STFU. I won't have an impudent piece of shit software telling me how to express myself. </FlagellatingTheExpiredEquine>

Software Zen: delete this;

[Gary R Wheeler]

Oh great. We're going to have Mick arbitrate grammar rules, I just know it. All of us stupid "Mercans" are fucked.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Roger Wright]

But who will determine which version is correct? Some Brits and convicts, or people who write and speak English? ;)

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