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		lucumo on Aug 6, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Spellcheckers Work Why is it insane? Because it contains the word "patent"?

gloob on Aug 6, 2009 [–]

Not by my reading. It's insane because we already had a system "for approximating and encoding the phonetic value of a word": the alphabet.

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