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SquareWheel on Jan 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Spellchecker Used To Be A Major Feat of Software...

That'd be a grammar checker, that's a whole 'nother beast. That should spell check just fine.

plq on Jan 15, 2012 [–]

spell checking for languages that sport a high rate of agglutination where you can't (feasibly) enumerate every possible form of a stem is still a major feat. languages like turkish, finnish and hungarian are prime examples of this.

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