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Phrase Anomaly Highlighter
Distinguishing Underlining or Highlighting of Word and Phrase Anomalies and Potential Compositional Flaws:A function of a word processing application | |
Dark red: Profanity
Bright orange: Slang
Dark yellow: Spelling error
Bright green: Grammatical error
Dark blue: Proper noun
Bright purple: Word or colloquialism foreign to what you designate as your native tongue
The user would have the ability to individually
turn these functions off.
There could also be six variations of squiggly colored underline pattern to meet the needs of the color-blind.
Eudora Moodwatch
http://www.eudora.c...ures/moodwatch.html
Eudora does some of this. [ooys, Oct 05 2004]
[link]
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Look at all the pretty colors... |
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By the way, that's one helluva title. Couldn't you think of a more condensed one? |
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Wait, I'm about to edit the idea one more time. |
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I think I might have actually been increasing the length of the title ("or Highlighting") as you just annoed. |
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Yeah, I'd say that "Highlighting" is extra. Underlining should be enough, no? |
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The option could be included for it to either highlight or underline...[Machiavelli] |
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Going back and forth, we are. What time zone are you in? I should be in beddy-by but this site sure does draw me in. hope you are having fun too...[Machiavelli]...[everyone else] |
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I'm on the Third Coast...Northwest Michigan...[M] |
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jscottpete on AOL IM. 11:24 is too early for bed. That is the time I'm having fun. |
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Fucking wierd (first word underlinded in dark red). I was posting my AOL IM as you were posting your inquiry (no time to spell check). Yes, I'm talking to you [Machiavelli] |
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Waiting for an IM. Only company now is the incessant hum of my computer and knowledge that the notorious UnaBubba likes my idea. |
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An audio distiguishing element could be added. As you drag the mouse across a highlighted entity there could be either various tones or tunes, or a pleasant voice stating the distinguishing factor. Probably wouldn't want it to say: "Word or colloquialism foreign to what you have designated as your native tongue" . |
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There must be other distiguishing factors.
I will now see whether this new smiley faced icon version of Yahoo IM will freeze my computer again. |
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You mean, something like the colour underlinings in Word? I get irritated at that and turn it off. |
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I like it, especially the bright purple. (+) for thinking of the visually impaired as well as the lexiconically ungifted. |
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<later>I doubt this would be of much use. Most people ignore the two existing colours that MS currently uses... red & green. Interesting that they are also the colours most susceptible to misinterpretation by the colourblind who suffer deuteranopia (poor perception of green). |
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I'm surprised Microsoft never thought of that. |
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Purple is a good option, but hard to distinguish from blue, for many people. |
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Is there a ranking of the colours, or
does a word that falls into more than
one of the cartegories start flashing/
strobing. |
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In days of yesteryear, the 'bakery was a rainbow. |
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[Admin: renamed idea; it was messing
up some of the recent views. Feel free
to rename it to something else, but
please stay away from really long
titles.] |
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Yay, [jscott] much better. + for the idea. |
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Clippit(TM) could read it out loud, making disgusted faces when he comes to a bodily function and inserting question-mark inflections? when he gets to a name he doesn't know. |
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Machiavelli deleted some annotations to which I responded. I think she was worried about us catching some shit for going back and forth so much. I was flirting if anyone. |
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We did end up IMing and it was very pleasant. I hope to do it again soon. Funny that I had just posted that "let us IM" idea and then it happened by circumstance. |
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Sorry about the title. Couldn't seem to practically shorten it. It works as the bulk of the subtitle. |
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[st3f] Yes, words or phrases that fall into more than one category would simply have to either strobe or have stripes moving across. Characters one color, dripping the other color…With flames of the other color. |
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I was just reading your, "Phrase Anomaly Highlighter" and this gets to what is in the back of my mind a lot. I want continuous improvement of an idea. It seems like when people argue, that the subject changes so much that the longer the argument goes on, the more confusing it gets. I applaud any effort to better organize information, instead of just allowing us to post more and more of it. We have plenty of information, and analysis, we just need to organize it better. |
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