Re: [tdf-discuss] European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

Jon Hamkins wrote:
> On 04/22/2011 05:33 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> > Hi *,
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Jon 
> > Hamkins<hamkins@alumni.caltech.edu>  wrote:
> > > On 04/06/2011 04:54 AM, toki wrote:
> > >
> > > > There are roughly one billion words in the English language. You could
> > > > have a LibO spell checker that contains each of those words.
> > >
> > > Actually, there are only about one million English words in English, 
> > > and
> > > that's including the 500,000 or so scientific words.
> > >
> > > http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JohnnyLing.shtml
> >
> > Note that a spell checker doesn't just need to list the words, but
> > needs to know all forms of the words (plural form, genitive form,
> > different times,....)
>
> Well, the spell checker just needs a list of words -- grammar is 
> something else.  OED2 contained 290,000 entries with a total of 
> 690,000 word forms.  OED3 has somewhat more; a solid word list in an 
> office suite should have somewhat fewer.  You don't want to include 
> obsolete words that have a close but different spelling from common 
> words, for example.
>
>      ----Jon
I have said this a number of times, and that at least the English 
version is sadly deficient in compound words, at least the one in OOo 
3.11 which I am still using because I am reluctant to give up the 
personal dictionary to which I have added perhaps thousands of compound 
words.    If the current release of LO is significantly better in this 
area I haven't heard of it.  Nor do I know how to find and 
save/copy/move my personal dictionary. 

On a related matter, I believe that if a developer/programmer could put 
instructions on this list, I believe that a few users like me with 
greatly enhanced personal dictionaries could send them in as attachments 
and someone could use them to build a better word list that would make 
for a much better spell check function for LO.

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