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>Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:03:04 -0800
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>From: Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8102 French correction

Betty and others,

Is this software that much better than what comes with Word?
I often get asked about spellchecks.  Word's is not perfect (it 
obviously isn't either for English...), but (I just tried this) it 
did flag "baeu" and suggested beau.

So the question is: any spell checkers that are worth investing in?

Thanks.
Francoise

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>>Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:53:56 -0800
>>From: Betty Woerner <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: French correction
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>We just had a session with the French faculty in the lab 
>demonstrating Antidote
>Prisme, which we are considering adopting for our classes. 
>Unfortunately, when
>we ran the software on a student paper, it didn't correct several 
>easy mistakes
>including "baeu", which had been typed instead of "beau".  Instead, it
>suggested some other, totally inappropriate word.  If any of you are 
>using this
>tool, can you tell me whether it is possible to adjust or tweak the
>spell-checking part of the program?  Other than this, it is a good piece of
>software with many interesting features.
>
>Thanks much!
>
>Betty Woerner
>Reed College
>Portland, OR
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