"Rob Stewart" <stewart@sig.com> wrote in message:
From: "Jonathan Turkanis":
Even better would be to use real malapropisms, though they don't involve simple word replacements:
fire distinguisher (extinguisher) pigment of ones imagination (figment) wolf in cheap clothing (sheep's) The Sixteenth Chapel (Sistene)
:-)
extra-century perception (extrasensory) dissolve a mystery (solve) pineapple of good taste (pinnacle) I have a preposition for you (proposition) dangerous as an allegory in a swamp (alligator) little affluence over it (influence)
There are plenty more examples available, of course.
Yeah, there are lots of good ones in Shakespeare, too. My father says 'I'd just assume' instead of 'I'd just as soon'. ;-) Unfortunately, doing phrase substitutions instead of word substitutions significantly complicates the examples.
Another approach is, if you have it handy, to look at the list of AutoCorrect'ions that Microsoft Word is programmed to make. For example, it will change "hte" to "the."
Or "het", in the Dutch version ;-)
Those are typographical mistakes, so the filter might be called the typographical_error_filter.
That's a good idea. Jonathan