Re: [libreoffice-users] [Solved] Re: Odd files in Help|Contents

On 02/25/2011 08:29 PM, Cliff Scott wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Charles Marcus<CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com>  on Fri,
> 25 Feb 2011 10:14:22 -0500
>
> > On 2011-02-24 6:46 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > > Disregard. I went back and did a reinstall/repair and found that there
> > > were dictionaries installed for just about every language on the planet.
> > > Uninstalled those&  only installed English&  the Help|Contents no longer
> > > shows those two entries. Sorry for the noise.
> > Yes, I've run into this...
> >
> > What is the reasoning behind installing all of these dictionaries???
> They are all selected in the install as default and you need to go through
> two lists( dictionary and languages) in the custom install to deselect them
> before install.
>
> --
> Cliff

You installed Windows all-languages right?
The real issue about dictionaries, for my view of it, is that even 
though you speak Spanish, you speak a local version of it and need to 
have that spell checking system.  For English, each region have their 
own spelling of standard words.  Britain English spells words like 
"color" as "colour".  Ask any kid in US schools to tell you what they 
are told when they use the "other" word spelling.  I was told that we 
spell out works our way and do not use any other spelling of these word 
even if it is a "proper" spelling in the dictionary.  This from an 
English teacher when I was young.  I used a dictionary to help spell my 
word in a paper.  Now we have many different version of English, 
Spanish, German, and many other languages.  There are 4 different 
spelling dictionaries for French.  One have a "reform 1990" on its 
title.  Over the years "people with the power" decides what is the 
correct spelling of our words, if there are several "correct" ways to 
spell it.  I took college English and a few years later there were new 
books out telling you that everything you were taught in college [or any 
other school] a few years ago no longer is correct and not excepted 
anymore.  The same goes with spelling words.  So each localized version 
of a language will have different ways to spell the same word that are 
proper for their region and not proper for a different one.



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