Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!claris!wombat From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Multiscribe GS & Dictionary Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 89 22:36:14 GMT References: <417@mountn.dec.com> <36410001@hpindwa.HP.COM> Sender: wombat@claris.com Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 19 In-reply-to: tribby@hpindwa.HP.COM's message of 17 Jul 89 17:20:13 GMT In article <36410001@hpindwa.HP.COM> tribby@hpindwa.HP.COM (David Tribby) writes: Are you reviewing some of the definitions, too? Compare the synonyms for man vs. woman and boy vs. girl; I'm no feminist, but the contrast was interesting. Then take a look at liberal vs. conservative. Microsoft Word's synonyms seem to make fewer value judgements... We've put a request in to Proximity, the company that wrote, owns & licenses the spell checker & thesaurus, and they might be able to get us new data files. Part of the problem is that a single definition is used for multiple synonyms. Case in point: The definition of husband is also used for man. Similarly, the definition of wife is used for woman. I haven't looked at boy vs. girl, but the disparity probably stems from a similar set of definitions. Scott Lindsey |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air Claris Corp. | About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare" ames!claris!wombat| DISCLAIMER: These are not the opinions of Claris, Apple, wombat@claris.com | StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or dead.