Re: The spell checker

[Alex Lubet <lubet001...>]

Difficulties I have using my hands require that I employ dictation software 
and hardware, which is even worse.

When I was living and teaching in Poland, I had to learn Windows for the 
first time, as no one in that country has a Mac.  When I typed my lectures 
(in English) on the only computer in the music building, almost every word 
was underlined in red for reasons I did not understand, learning only later 
that the spell check was automatic and underlined everything that was not a 
correctly spelled Polish word.  Had I been typing in transliterated 
Yiddish, I'd probably have gotten a few less red marks.



At 11:11 AM 1/8/2004 -0600, you wrote:

>Lori from Maxwell St. was remarking on her spell checker's difficulties 
>with Yiddish and musical terms.  Presumably any language other than 
>English would create a similar list, many musical terms having come from 
>Italian.  An important question would be which word processing software is 
>being used, although Word is becoming lingua franca.  (E-mail software has 
>similar spell-check capabilities.)  Two comments: 1) I don't want to 
>specify how I found out, but my e-mail software, Lotus Notes, has a hard 
>time with profanity.  (And I won't bother you with examples.)  and 2) It 
>should be possible to add frequently-used terms to the spell checker's 
>dictionary.  In Word go to Tools > Options > Spelling & Grammar > Custom 
>Dictionaries > Select Dictionary > Modify > type in the word and click 
>ADD > OK > OK > OK.  I don't mean to send a dour response to Lori's 
>humorous contri! bution, but adding frequently-used terms to the 
>dictionary might make checking spelling and typing go more smoothly.
>
>Fred ("from Flad Ave.") Blumenthal
>xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com

Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
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