Re: Aspell-en license Once again.
What a completely useless response. You completely missed the point of
my post.
David Starner <starner@okstate.edu> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:40:06AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> Alright, then consider this. Since a word list in a dictionary has a
>> questionable copyright, it must be removed from a dictionary. Then,
>> people notice some common words no longer exist in the dictionary, so
>> they add them. Eventually, every missing word will be added back to the
>> dictionary, so that the end result is identical to the original.
>
> That’s quite an assumption; I seriously doubt it. Assuming that the
> words removed were not in any of the other word lists used, then they
> weren’t all that common. And assuming that words flow in at a steady
> rate, a large number of new words will get added that weren’t in the
> original, many of the words in the original won’t get suggested at all,
> and I would expect that some of the words in the old word‐lists might
> get suggested but turned down as unsuitable.
It was a scenario to consider, which was completely possible. I didn't
suggest it would happen in this particular case. What if the offending
word list contained only the words "the, if, and". Of course those
words would be immediately replaced.
>> Have you ever heard of two original novels independently written that
>> were identical to each other? No, that's inconceivable.
>
> Identical, no. But many hackneyed or strongly genre‐bound novels do turn
> out increadibly similar to each other.
Word-for-word identical? Are you on fucking crack?
>> But it's
>> completely conceivable for two independently compiled dictionaries to be
>> identical, or very nearly so.
>
> I wouldn’t describe it as likely. The choice of words (do you add cwm?
> bakress? ye? luculent? cromulent? boxen? virii? f**k? The spelling
> without the astericks? I can see large debates on each of those words)
> and the large selection mean that any two wordlists are probably going
> to have significant differences in the set of words included.
Don't waste time with retarded suggestions that have absolutely nothing
to do with the issue at hand.
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