[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 143287] Spelling - Correct and Correct All is inappropriate.

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Tue Jul 13 13:34:30 UTC 2021


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143287

--- Comment #6 from Telesto <telesto at surfxs.nl> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #5)
> We lable for clarity of the action. As a button action 'Correct' is a simple
> verb acting on an object, or a transitive verb. We are correcting an error.
> 
> In adjectival form it would be oposite of the button action, meaning to
> ignore an error. The is no ambiguity as the spell check is for making
> corrections.
> 
> Also here--correct as opposed to change--is the precise action the button
> will apply.
> 
> I would not alter it.

Looking a the competition, it might be 'change all'.  
I'm personally more inclined to the view of the OP, reading it as more natural.

Correct can 'correct' something without being 'correct' in the context given.
What you do is change this for that based on the suggestion. 

However I'm not native English speaker and surely no authority on the matter

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