Re: Misreading of the hyphen with JAWS 5.0884.
- From: Bruce Toews <coke_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 18:37:31 +0000 (UTC)
This is precisely my argument against overzealous dictionaries and the
like. Saying 5 minus 10 is very much in line with the misspeaking of
acronyms and so on. There have been a few posts wby people who want more
default dictionary entries and so on. I just want JAWS to say what's
there, leave me the option for adding the major mistakes to a dictionary,
and let me do the interpreting.
Bruce
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On Sat, 1 May 2004 ptusing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 10:49:07 -0500
> From: ptusing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reply-To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Misreading of the hyphen with JAWS 5.0884.
>
> In 5.0884, when you have a range of numbers like
> 5 to 10 and put a hyphen between them,
> JAWS 5.0884 reads
> "five minus ten" whereas other versions read it as "five dash ten".
>
> It takes some getting used to if you work with numbers all the time.
> Thanks and have a great day.
>
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