The spell checker
Spell checkers are a great tool, but we should be careful not to rely 100% on them. At least in Spanish, and other languages with accent marks, there are a lot of words that are not picked by the spell checker because they have more than one meaning just distinguished by these marks. The most common case occurs with the word "mas" - in this form it means "but", however, it is rarely used as such. Instead, the author probably meant to write "más", which means "more". But as you can guess, the spell checker will not hint you any mistake here. Therefore, until a more powerful version arrives, with all these new AI/ML algorithms, we still have to rely on the old yet proved method of slow and careful reviewing.
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Spell checkers are a great tool, but we should be careful not to rely 100% on them completely. At least in Spanish, and other languages with accent/diacritical marks, there are a lot of words that are not picked up by the spell checker because they have more than one meaning, just distinguished by these marks. The most common case occurs with the word "mas" - in this form it means "but", however it is rarely used as such. Instead, the author probably meant to write "más", which means "more". But as you can guess, the spell checker will not hint you any a possible mistake here. Therefore, until a more powerful version arrives, with all these new AI/ML algorithms, we still have to rely on the old, yet proven method of slow and careful reviewing.
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Quite funny, I didn't know it. Thanks.
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https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-1692348
This poem shows the danger of spell checkers!!!
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