How knswledgable are you about cartgriqdges?
Newer updates to Mac OS X Leopard seem to have an interesting problem with their spelling databases: they include words that are most certainly wrong. The problem first appeared in 10.5.2 (U.S. English), and has not yet been corrected.
Canspice.org points to an Ars Technica discussion from March highlighting the misspelling knswledgable. If you open TextEdit, for example, and intentionally misspell the word "knowledgeable" (say, by spelling it "knowledgable"), then control-click to show a spelling suggestion, you might see the erroneous option.
The word "cartgriqdge" also appears to be similarly affected. Both words do not appear in the Mac OS X Dictionary application.
Urban Dictionary seized upon the new word, defining knswledgable as having "inordinate amounts of knowledge about useless spelling trivia."
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Sounds a bit like the iPhone dictionary.
My experience with the german dict there is quite similar. Getting word suggestions even on correct words, that are so far away from anything german...
I even can't greet my SMS contacts with the word "Hey" w/o clicking away that auto correction suggestion.
One of the first things I do on my iPhone is disabling the autocorrect feature (sadly, only possible via Jailbreak). I type German on the iPhone, and it suggests the craziest heap of letters when I misspelled something (or just type a word that's not in the dictionary). There is cleary something wrong there.
November 06 2008 at 2:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHey. Do you disable the auto correction on the latest 2.1 firmware?
I read that the old 1.4 method wont work anymore.
Can you point me to a howto?
thx
I think there are tools for this available in both Installer and Cydia. I use the one in Installer, it's on the feature page and it's called "KB Autocorrect".
Before you can install it, you have to go Categories ->Sources and install the Community Sources package.
You guys should really try typing in Russian on the iPhone. That thing just makes words up all the time. Hours of (mis)spelling fun.
November 05 2008 at 9:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyPrivet Misha,
I haven't noticed any foreign language support issues with my iPhone. I type Japanese regularly and sometimes very basic Russian. What kinds of funny stuff have you found?
Well, for one, it keeps replacing my legit one-letter words like "è" and "â" with nonsensical consonants, though less so lately. I don't have any examples right now, but time and again it does suggest weird letter combinations instead of normal (usually short) words. I don't have kids, so my spelling database should be ok.
November 06 2008 at 12:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIn the german version of Mac OS X (10.5.5) there are similar problems.
If i write a Text with Pages and the spell correction doesn't know the word i wrote, it sometimes offers words that seem to be build from syllables of words. But the result is definitely not a german word. :)
It's a bit strange.
In a related note, does anyone know how to turn off the auto-correct feature on the iPhone??? I usually type in both english and spanish, and it's driving me nuts when it auto-corrects all the time!!!!!! Sorry to change the subject...
Help!!!!!
It only showed up for me if I misspelled it the way mentioned in the article.
if I spelled it knowlegable it didnt pop up the "kns" version.
Only turns up in the English dictionary for me, the British, Australian and Canadian dictionaries are fine.
To quickly change dictionaries in text edit go to Edit, Spelling and Grammar, Show Spelling and Grammar or Command-colon.
I wonder if applications can add words to the dictionary? Maybe that's why some of us (including myself) are seeing it and others are not. It could be we just all have some common application.
November 05 2008 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCould be, but I don't have a lot installed... it's a dev machine so it has remote desktop, it has wow, flip4mac, growl. Everything else is pretty much default that shipped with the machine.
I suspect the person writing it is an idiot. You can add words to your personal dictionary which you can spell (e.g. brand names, project names), and that's all that's happened here.
November 05 2008 at 12:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI know for a fact that I didn't add either of those two words to my dictionary, and I'd reckon that the other people in this thread haven't either.
November 05 2008 at 12:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHi Alex,
I didn't add knswledgable to my dictionary, nor did the myriad others who see the bug. I've added other words (as you've said, project names and other such miscellany) but haven't added this one.
Personally, I'm still a fan of "applicaticataion", as pointed out a while back on TUAW: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/10/mac-101-spell-check-errors/
Though "cartigriqdge" is quite amusing too.
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