<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 26 Aug 2008, at 11:59, Yury Tarasievich wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Michael Everson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">But what do you do about automated spell-checking?</span></blockquote><br>About nothing. There are 3rd party module for MS Word and some sort of <br>aspell dictionary, usable in linux -- both not worth much, I hear.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, that problem's nothing new. But then I can't even get an en-GB-oed spell-check dictionary. When I can, I use a Canadian one, since that's closest.</div><div><br></div><div><div>My point is that if you had a spell-check dictionary for the Academy orthography, would you want it to be the 1959 spelling? The 1985 spelling? The 2008 spelling? And what happens when in 2022 they adopt a modified <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">Taraskievica and *that* becomes the "Academy" spelling?</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">That's why I favour YYYYacad.</font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">In principle 1959acad, 1985acad, and 2008acad could be quite useful in<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">such a context.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">"Academy" by itself is too vague, and could apply to any country.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">But "be-academy" couldn't, right? (Yes, it's the "Institute of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Linguistics of Academy of Sciences of Belarus" which the controlling <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">body.)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yes, I was trying to ask "How do you say that in Belarusian?"<br></blockquote><br>It's "Інстытут мовазнаўства (Нацыянальнай) Акадэміі навук Беларусі". <br>Right now it's reorganised as an Institute of language and literarure <br>("Інстытут мовы і літаратуры..."), actually. Their don't seem to have <br>any official site worth to talk of. Have a look starting at <a href="http://www.ac.by">www.ac.by</a> <br>(Academy's site).</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I had been wondering whether something like movakad would do, but I prefer YYYYacad.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-monospace'; ">Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>