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Developer's Corner / Re: AutoHotKey text replacement question
« on: June 29, 2015, 10:15 AM »
Man I gotta learn to do ahk programming.... I don't think that computer programmers appreciate just how confusing this stuff is to us lehhfolks.
Anyway. I remember a few years ago, finding a script that someone had already written that does autocorrects. Here I just now found this article about it.
http://www.howtogeek...ions-on-your-system/
I think it's been updated a few times, so google it and get the latest version. If my memory is correct, they integrated some wikipedia list of "most common English typos" or some kind of thing....
Also, the a/an situation is difficult. There are lots of exceptions.
I also googled that.
https://www.google.c...a+grammar+exceptions
From here: https://owl.english....owl/resource/591/01/
Exceptions
Use "an" before unsounded "h." Because the "h" hasn't any phonetic representation and has no audible sound, the sound that follows the article is a vowel; consequently, "an" is used.
an honorable peace
an honest error
When "u" makes the same sound as the "y" in "you," or "o" makes the same sound as "w" in "won," then a is used. The word-initial "y" sound ("unicorn") is actually a glide [j] phonetically, which has consonantal properties; consequently, it is treated as a consonant, requiring "a."
a union
a united front
a unicorn
a used napkin
a U.S. ship
a one-legged man
Anyway. I remember a few years ago, finding a script that someone had already written that does autocorrects. Here I just now found this article about it.
http://www.howtogeek...ions-on-your-system/
I think it's been updated a few times, so google it and get the latest version. If my memory is correct, they integrated some wikipedia list of "most common English typos" or some kind of thing....
Also, the a/an situation is difficult. There are lots of exceptions.
I also googled that.
https://www.google.c...a+grammar+exceptions
From here: https://owl.english....owl/resource/591/01/
Exceptions
Use "an" before unsounded "h." Because the "h" hasn't any phonetic representation and has no audible sound, the sound that follows the article is a vowel; consequently, "an" is used.
an honorable peace
an honest error
When "u" makes the same sound as the "y" in "you," or "o" makes the same sound as "w" in "won," then a is used. The word-initial "y" sound ("unicorn") is actually a glide [j] phonetically, which has consonantal properties; consequently, it is treated as a consonant, requiring "a."
a union
a united front
a unicorn
a used napkin
a U.S. ship
a one-legged man
