[AccessD] Is there a simpler way?

[Arthur Fuller]

Nice!

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 5:01 PM Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a spelling checker,
> It came with my PC.
> It plane lee marks four my revue
> Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
> Eye ran this poem threw it,
> Your sure reel glad two no.
> Its vary polished in it's weigh.
> My checker tolled me sew.
> A checker is a bless sing,
> It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
> It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
> And aides me when eye rime.
> Each frays come posed up on my screen
> Eye trussed too bee a joule.
> The checker pours o'er every word
> To cheque sum spelling rule.
> Bee fore a veiling checker's
> Hour spelling mite decline,
> And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
> We wood bee maid too wine.
> Butt now bee cause my spelling
> Is checked with such grate flare,
> Their are know fault's with in my cite,
> Of nun eye am a wear.
> Now spelling does knot phase me,
> It does knot bring a tier.
> My pay purrs awl due glad den
> With wrapped word's fare as hear.
> To rite with care is quite a feet
> Of witch won should bee proud,
> And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
> Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
> Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
> Such soft wear four pea seas,
> And why eye brake in two averse
> Buy righting want too pleas.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 12:36 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Well said, Susan!
> >
> > I think that you have identified the central problem with Spell Checkers:
> > they need to become Context Checkers -- and that is a huge leap from
> Spell
> > Checkers. I admit that. To mention your citation, "toe" becomes "to",
> only
> > in context can one understand the difference. Let us try a casual
> > experiment, off the top of my head.
> >
> > "She stood six foot six, from toe to toe, too. And yet, she was only
> two."
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 1:25 PM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I think more people know these rules than you might think. The problem
> > > isn't
> > > remembering the rule--it's applying it. Rocky calls this phenomenon
> brain
> > > farts. We all experience this problem, and some of us more than others.
> > >
> > > Proofing your own work is also difficult. It's a physiological thing --
> > not
> > > laziness or ignorance. Tina, as careful as you are, you wrote "toe"
> > instead
> > > of "to" in one of your posts to us on this subject. I know how careful
> > you
> > > are. I'm not pointing that out as ridicule, but as an example of how
> even
> > > the best of us, which you are, make mistakes and don't catch them.
> > >
> > > I sent in an article last week with the term delimiter scattered about.
> > The
> > > editor caught one that I'd spelled "dimeter" -- I blame that one on
> > > AutoCorrect, but I didn't catch it in my last edit.
> > >
> > > This is why I have editors. It's real. In the end, the frustration we
> > feel
> > > only hurts us -- the writer is totally and blissfully unaware.
> > >
> > > Susan H.
> > >
> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
> >
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Arthur