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budafist
10-17-2007, 02:56 AM
Got dynamic spelling turned on and Indy CS2 reckons Internet is not a word. Anyway to update the dictionary to a more current version? I mean, how long has the internet been around for? Longer than CS2 certainly...
Haha I see incoherent is a suggestion. How fitting...
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7753/internetisnotawordoj6.jpg
urstwile
10-17-2007, 03:09 AM
Make the i a capital I. That makes the squiggles go away on my version.
AlexNJ210
10-17-2007, 03:12 AM
its a silly, silly world out there....
budafist
10-17-2007, 04:10 AM
I figure that Adobe haven't heard of the internet yet. Maybe we should send them a memo.
It's not a word, Buda. The proper term is "The Interwebs".
Red Kittie Kat
10-17-2007, 04:26 AM
every spell checker I have wants to make it a capital I as well .. or you can just add it to your dictionary as I did ;)
urstwile
10-17-2007, 08:10 AM
I was gonna suggest adding it to the dictionary as well, Kat, good call. :)
Nevertheless, I think that most of the time I think I see it spelled with a capital I. So I guess it's considered a proper noun.
budafist
10-17-2007, 08:27 AM
Interesting...
I'm not going to change it because it's the legal guff for a client's (real estate) design. Just was perplexed when I was going through the spell check and internet came up.
urstwile
10-17-2007, 08:28 AM
My computer dictionary shows it with a capital I, for whatever that's worth. :)
hewligan
10-17-2007, 10:05 AM
Bah, stupid dictionary makers not knowing nothing about networking. Internet is a description of what it is, not it's name.
hewligan
10-17-2007, 10:17 AM
Looks like it's another example of spell-checkers trying to force American spelling conventions on the rest of us (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#The_name_Internet).
budafist
10-17-2007, 11:31 AM
OK. So an internet and the Internet are different things. Who knew? Not I.
Do I know everything yet? Is it safe to rest my weary head? I'm sleepy and I have a sore tummy. Don't know why, had it all day. Better go to bed I think and hope it's gone by morning.
Virgo Nightingale
10-17-2007, 02:39 PM
Funny coinky-dink. As I was reading this thread, my proofreader gave me back a piece of mine she was checking. Lo and behold, she marked the "i" in "internet" to remind me to capitalize it.