Timeline for Vindictive vs. Vindicative
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| Aug 11, 2016 at 15:56 | comment | added | bwegs | @AndyT Or better yet, just right... My question seems to have been adequately re-shaped by the comments and edits after all. | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 15:50 | comment | added | AndyT | @bwegs - Yep, we're good at that here. Meta is filled with discussions on whether we're too harsh, or too soft... | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 13:16 | history | edited | Lawrence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Strengthened the question by removing an unnecessary conditional.
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| Aug 11, 2016 at 7:02 | history | edited | Sven Yargs |
edited tags
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 17:35 | history | edited | bwegs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Improved question clarity by eliminating a poor example
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 17:24 | vote | accept | bwegs | ||
| Aug 10, 2016 at 17:21 | comment | added | bwegs | @EdwinAshworth And I thought the guys over at StackOverflow were bad! Little did I know they only scratch the surface, you guys really know how to critique the crap out of people :) | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:54 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I said 'two-part question'. You essentially ask one off-topic question (about how programmers come to their decisions) and then suggest a possible answer to it. Try asking 'Have vindictive and vindicative a common origin? Is vindicative commonly used nowadays?' | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:45 | comment | added | bwegs | @EdwinAshworth Except the part where I asked "Is it simply because of its lack of usage in our day and age?" | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:41 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Possibly because the only (two-part) question one can find in your post is '... why do Google and StackExchange's spell-check dictionary not recognize vindicative as a word? Is it simply because of its lack of usage in our day and age?' | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:39 | answer | added | user66974 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:37 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:35 | comment | added | bwegs | @EdwinAshworth Clearly the example of a spell checker wasn't the best because it definitely is not meant to be the focus of the question. Not sure why it's become the sole focus. The question is meant to address the differences between the two words and further history behind vindicative. I'll make an edit to clarify this when I get a chance. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:15 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the foibles of spell-checkers are a matter for the programmers to deal with rather than a matter of English usage.. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:02 | comment | added | bwegs | @Jim Good point. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 15:57 | comment | added | Jim | Also because vindicative is so rare, odds are that when people type it, they actually meant vindictive so the spell checker statistically helps more people by suggesting the “correction” | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 15:43 | comment | added | choster | If you're asking why something is included in a spellcheck or not, it's really a question for the software publishers, and not about English per se. No possible spellchecker dictionary, with current technology, could encompass every possible variation of every possible word of any living language, especially since they also bundle many proper nouns that a print dictionary would omit— MS Word 2013 understands Tatung and Coldplay and Atorvastatin. Vindicative is relatively rare, and you need to set a cut off somewhere. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 15:31 | comment | added | Helmar | StackExchange does not have a spell check, it's your browser's. (Otherwise it wouldn't mark StackExchange as erroneous ;)) If it's Chrome, it's from the same company as Google Search. For performance reasons live services tend to skip rare words. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 14:53 | comment | added | bwegs | @choster Of course, I'm aware that software and tools like these are far from all-encompassing I was just curious as to why it appears to have been 'left behind'. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 14:53 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 14:50 | comment | added | choster | No spell-checker is comprehensive, and vindicative is a rare word. Never rely on automated spell-checkers, much less so-called grammar-checkers, to judge the acceptability of a word or phrase. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 14:46 | history | asked | bwegs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |