Re: [OOo-Hebrew] Spell checker on Windows

Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006, Yitzchak Gale wrote about "Re: [OOo-Hebrew] Spell checker on Windows":
>   
>> Of course, part of the problem is that many wordsdo not have a universally 
>> accepted "correct"spelling in the sense that people would considerother 
>> variants as "wrong". There are different styles,and it is not the job of a 
>> spelling checker to enforceone of them.
>>     
>
> I think I don't agree with you on the job of the spell-checker, and I'd like
> to solicit opinions on this from other people as well.
>   
I agree with Nadav on this point.
>
>
> Another thing to ponder is why we Israelis have come to accept the situation
> that in any other language we know, each word (with very few exceptions)
> has one accepted spelling, and in Hebrew, we have one accepted spelling with
> niqqud - but when it comes to the way we normally spell - without niqqud -
> suddenly there is no "accepted" spelling, even though the Academia, and
> recent Hebrew dictionaries, all have a spelling standard.
>   
Many publishers have their own variant of rules for "ktiv maleh."
It's very common for an editor to receive "the House ktiv maleh rules" 
from a publisher when he does his first job for them.
So Yitzchak's notion of "common usage vs. Academia" is a misconception. 
Different publishers deviate from the Academia standard in subtly 
different ways. Usually minor. The Academia standard is the one that has 
a linguistic foundation.
So one might provide an alternative dictionary according to a specific 
publisher's standard. I don't think that's as useful as hspell's current 
policy.

Inconsistencies within the same publication are just editing errors.


>
> If we do this survey by word classes, i.e., make one consistent decision for
> all words like âðáä, ùøôä, etc., then we end up exactly with "rules". This
> is what the Academia did. And like I said, most of their rules are actually
> followed by every modern spell-checker and dictionary - only very few of
> their rules (especially the one regarding kamats katan) is disputed.
>   

This is consistent with my experience.
>
>
>   


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Thanks,
Uri
http://translation.israel.net 

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