Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Open Office, Spellcheckers and National Pride
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My daughter Sarah and I have been using Open Office, and finding it a great replacement for the Wordprocessor, Presentation program and Spreadsheet offered by the Great Satan.
Except... since the upgrade to 3.1 we have had strange spellings accepted instantly by the spell chekker ("chekker" is an example - this is not normal NZ English spelling ;)
I have solved the problem, OO (like many citizens of the Imperial Homeland) is unaware that NZ is not part of Australia. I needed to tell OO that I wrote Australian English and now the spell checker works fine - though God help us if it ever starts to check pronunciation ;)
¶ 9:40 AM Except... since the upgrade to 3.1 we have had strange spellings accepted instantly by the spell chekker ("chekker" is an example - this is not normal NZ English spelling ;)
I have solved the problem, OO (like many citizens of the Imperial Homeland) is unaware that NZ is not part of Australia. I needed to tell OO that I wrote Australian English and now the spell checker works fine - though God help us if it ever starts to check pronunciation ;)
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Those Aussies get everywhere. Hadn't you noticed that one of the main balls in Quidditch is called a bludger?
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Doug Chaplin, at
August 6, 2009 11:29 AM
LOL!! x2
And Tim, it's only Australians and New Zealanders (and long time residents of one or other of the countries) that can distinguish differences in our pronunciations anyway.
