Comment 12 for bug 808570

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John S. Gruber (jsjgruber) wrote :

Nathan,

No doubt Lernid should send the proper word for the locale--in the spirit of the rule to be "conservative in what you send", but the calendar might change while it is running, or classbot might change sessions before or after Lernid does, so there is still plenty to go wrong.

In the spirit of being "liberal in what you accept" I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea for classbot to treat as a QUESTION any message in the chat channel that begins with "nospaceSOMEWORD:" . The danger would be false positives, but I doubt there would be many, and they could be easily disposed of with !n. This might even help out non-native speakers in a session who happen to use their native word when that isn't what is expected.

What do you think?