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I'm sorry, you seemed to have an interesting story going there but the spelling and grammar put me off finishing it. I think this says a lot more about me than it does you however. (cue next commenter finding the flaws in this comment)

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I've never been able to figure out why it's seemingly so difficult for many engineers to understand how spellcheck works.

The errors I saw (before giving up) would not be caught by a spell check. I'll go so far as guessing that a blind spell check was run, with no human check on the corrections.

Or English isn't their first language. That was my impression. Granted, I bailed partly because of the grammar, too but that was after realizing it was a mixed list of soft skills, not algorithms or tools or whatever. Once it wasn't what I expected, the writing didn't help keep me.

I think because I'm a programmer I rely less on spellcheck than non-programmers, because what I write is full of words mashed together as one (spellcheck if flagged by Firefox's spell checker (and BTW the "if" in "spellcheck if" wasn't flagged by anything)), and words that just aren't words (ngninx). I don't usually add those words to the dictionary, because I'm afraid of writing to a non-programmer and having something pass through that shouldn't.

I treat spellcheck as a real-time shoulder sirfer (surfer), and I generally hit Reply/Send/Make-it-so even though my messages are full of wavy red lines.

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