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Offensive Auto-Correct #623

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LizIzhikevich opened this issue Jun 1, 2022 · 1 comment
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Offensive Auto-Correct #623

LizIzhikevich opened this issue Jun 1, 2022 · 1 comment

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@LizIzhikevich
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When misspelling the word "network" as "netowkrs", the top 3 choices proposed by overleaf are variations of the word "negro." This can be perceived as very offensive, and should be addressed asap. Network wasn't even on the list of suggested corrections.

I found this issue through another widely used product that relies on aspell. However, with such a problematic issue, aspell risks being dropped and replaced by another more robust/less-prone-to-being-offensive solution.

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mcepl commented Sep 25, 2022

This has absolutely nothing to do with aspell as a program and all to do with the dictionaries used.

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