* Posts by homokip

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.NET spell-checker trips over hypenation

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sad ad

I'm really sorry to see that they messed up the ad for this, but at least I've learnt about this C# wrapper... Because this is just some C# wrapper around the otherwise C-only library that is available at http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/

The wrapper is at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/hunspell-for-net.aspx?msg=2961319 and

http://nhunspell.sourceforge.net/

I am grateful to Mr. Thomas Maierhofer for releasing this C# wrapper as well, although I am very sad about the way the ad is written. No questions, this is bad marketing for an otherwise very good library (&dictionaries) and a wrapper (which I haven't tested.)

Actually, the spellchecker, hyphenation and the corresponding dictionaries are really very good and advanced stuff, much better than the one included in MS Word itself. And I am proud to say was made by some of my fellow Hungarians (some of them earning money as linguists in UK universities), so **misspellings in the ad have nothing to do with the quality of the library and the dictionaries used**.

I agree, it's somehow funny to see such a mess in an ad (&homepage) for a spell checker. But if you live & work in a multi-cultural environment or in a foreign country, you wouldn't even laugh out loud... We rape the rules and spellings of your mother tongue each and every day so many times, we don't even notice. Have you heard the English e.g. a Hungarian and a Slovakian uses during business negotiations? That's why the French are so happy to see their language not being a lingua franca anymore.

BTW, I hear, the Right Honourable Baroness Ashton that you've sent to the EU as a representative of foreign affairs fails to speak any language other than her native one. Do you think any French would mock at her French spelling?