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		raffi on Sept 8, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After the Deadline Acquired by Auttomatic One of the things we're doing is downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary. Trying to keep up on some of these Web 2.0 names/terms. A tool like AtD isn't meant to be a portable websters / virtual grammar nut--it's meant to act as an automated set of eyes and help you spot errors that you didn't intend to make.

wlievens on Sept 9, 2009 [–]

"...downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary."

That's awesome. Tools like MS Word have vocabularies that somehow seem devoid of any geek terminology. Your tools fixes that. Cool.

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