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- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+77I have to admit I'm genuinely surprised by the amount of innovation MS is putting into Office 2007. This is one of those ideas that is so simple and brilliant that you kick yourself for not thinking of it first.
- furtwan1, on 10/12/2007, -14/+62but, but Open Offiice...oh wait, never mind.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35it's its. whether weather. they're their there. prinicipal principle. lead, led. two, too, to. bloc, block. populus, populace. etcetera, etcetera.
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28If they can keep up this trend of innovation, they release stable software and they refrain from monopolistic tatics, I can learn to like them.
- zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21How am eye ever going two get used too this? It awl seems sew confusing!
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19even people who can use a computer tend to lose some IQ points after pulling an all nighter for an assignment
or if you have been typing for several hours with pages full of text, these obvious mistakes can slip by unnoticed - rolosworld, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Seems google already copied this innovation from MS:
http://www.google.com/search?q=I+bought+a+pear+of+shoes&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
damn google - posure, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21This feature is worth the price of upgrading alone. This will save tons of time once I learn to trust it. :-)
- aer0sense, on 10/12/2007, -21/+37I think ill stick with Microsoft Werd aka http://daryld.com/schtuff/microsoft_werd.jpg
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -17/+30Um, do the people that confuse "pear" with "pair" even have the IQ to operate a PC?
- mulletman13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Who the hell makes a miss steak like that.
- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It's common in dyslexia. Words that sounds alike are often used in the wrong context. Read up, you might gain an understanding that not all grammatical shortcomings are IQ related.
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/ - Kharsen, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19(un)fortunately, yes.
- Twee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I find it extremely annoying when well-known news websites have editors posting articles with these stupid kinds of mistakes. This will save their asses, because from the looks of it, fewer and fewer news editors have somebody proofread their work.
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"...etcetera, etcetera."
Hah, I was thinking, "what's the difference in those two?" - shindig111, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13did you know that you could blog using word 2007 : http://technopedia.info/tech/2006/05/26/blogging-with-word-2007.html
- gatorsrule21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Often times it happens subconsciously... /its/ not like I always mean to do that.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12*populous. i not good spell. ironic is. :{
- anonymonk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9But does it check your digg posts for proper use of there/their/they're? What about "would of"? LOL
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Think about all the typos that result in a word that is spelled right but doesn't fit in the context.
brows/browse
sea/seat - C00001, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10niqhil, if you were going for a haiku, i think you were a few syllables off...
- XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7hopefully this will fix the "Their" and "they're" and "there" issue that so many people struggle with...
- tgone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8It's true though, people love to hate Microsoft...
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Maybe people should learn the difference and avoid making the mistake in the first place.
- sorgasm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Simple? Hardly. The difference between “compliment” and “complement” sited in the article is extremely subtle. I'm curious how their system works. Does it really query a large versatile body of linguistic knowledge? or does it just explicitly consult a list of commonly confused words? This idea isn't exactly new either. One can imagine a tool that is as intelligent as a human editor that makes suggestions on all types of mistakes. The fact that Microsoft has to separate the task of automatic editing into 3 distinct tools shows just how difficult Natural Language Processing is.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Actually, I'm sure many people thought of this already (I know I did), but it seems like it would be plain nasty to program, to me. Of course, I'm not anywhere near professional level (mainly just someone who tinkers around).
If it works, great! If not, then too bad. - salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The human eye can recognise around 10 million colours, I don't think we're going to run out.
- en3r0, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Sweet, now all we need to do is get this into OpenOffice!
- salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, all the grammar module ever did for me is cry about split infinitives and other random stuff that it couldn't show me solutions for, nor, did my english professor friends have any problems with :) Contextual spell checking on the other hand, would be far more useful - especially if it works...
- DerekJ212, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@sorgasm, prehaps you could use this tool for the proper use of 'cite'?
- slyckidiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If only this could be applied to web browsers somehow, and stop the truly insane use of "loose" versus "lose".
- docsnavely, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3took long enough
- disillusioned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It didn't catch principle when I tried it, or capitol or led (pipe).
Maybe we'll see some more tweaks to come. - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh good... more encouragement for those who refuse to learn proper grammar and pay attention to detail.
- mscamara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And I was thinking that Word was already bloated and the only useful features they could now add to it will had to do with collaboration and sharing...I guess I was wrong. This is pretty neat, especially once they've ironed out the quirks...Well I am sure we will have lots of laughs when the software will present us with suggestions that only a machine could think of.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I forsee a Digg article about all the ambiguous grammatical statements which will confuse the poor piece of software.
- cfazzini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, you get full words from other peoples' IMs? You're lucky.
- splash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So now they have 4 colours; red for misspelling, green for grammar, purple (i think) for those pointless smart tags, and blue for context
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats BADASS!! if it works well
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I've been waiting this for ages, I'm glad they've finally put it in. Now I can do my homework and rely much, much for on spell check. Thank you M$! Oh wait- wrong thing to say right?
- andreatwork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The only question now is how effective the tool really is. I've had enough of the green underlines saying that I should consider revising a perfectly well constructed sentence.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, but it wasn't very good...
- sam10685, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i really feel bad for microsoft. (OSX ALREADY HAS THIS FEATURE IN EVERY PROGRAM!!!) ('cept the squiggily line is red)
- mscamara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am guessing this is a derivative of all the work MS Research has been conducting on speech recognition and natural language for all those years. They could be using some Bayesian statistics tools to see what word combinations are more likely to appear together, some what in the same way as spam filters work
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4a lo(o)ser =D
- quinnk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So change the region (US, UK, CA, AU, NZ...).
- Dan100, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Methinks it will be a while before AJAX stuff like Writely catch up with Office.
I've got the 2007 beta and it's stonking. - MikeHinds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"et cetera", "etc."
(Two separate words meaning "and so forth") - sandymac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wasn't this called Grammar Check in the last version of Word? (though this version seems better about how specific it's suggestions are.)
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