Misstrokes: `there is`

[Monniasza]

Dictionary

I noticed something in:

• dict.json

Misstrokes

These look like misstrokes or could otherwise be better:

"THR-LGS": "there is",

These look like misstrokes because:

• The stroke for "there's" is THR-S, so I think the stroke for "there is" should be very similar, like THR*S, but the current stroke has extra -LG keys, which don't translate very well into suffixes that are used for "is", like "THAS": "that is", "TH-S": "this is".
• The stroke for "there has" is THR-Z as expected from similar strokes, like THAZ, HEZ, SHEZ, T-Z and other strokes ending with -Z whose translations end with " has".

Expected

I would expect the outline to be:

"THR*S": "there is",

I would expect to see that outline because:

• It uses a suffix stroke.
• It is consistent with the main.json dictionary from Plover 4.
• The suffix stroke for " is" is written using -S, which is consistent with the strokes used for "that is" and "this is".

Even better

To make this even better, we could:

• Remove the entry completely because it can already be stroked without its own entry.
• For strokes whose outlines end with -S and their translations with "'s", add equivalent strokes with suffix stroke *S and the word " is" after the original word, like "T-S": "it's" → "T*S": "it is".

[didoesdigital]

Thanks @Monniasza! I'm happy to remove "THR-LGS": "there is", as a misstroke.

As for replacing it, I'm not sure if it should be THR*S or THR-S (or both!).

For common two-word briefs, it seems like there are 2 main strategies:

• spinal e.g. Two-word briefs It * and Two-word briefs Which *
• a vowel and munging words together e.g. Two-word briefs * of

For contraction briefs, it seems like there are 3 approaches:

• spinal e.g. "W-RS": "where's", "THR-S": "there's", "TH-TS": "that's", "T-S": "it's"
• a vowel and munging words together e.g. "HAOES": "he's", "HRETS": "let's", "SHAOES": "she's", "SHAOEZ": "she's", "WHOES": "who's", "HAOERS": "here's", "THATS": "that's", "TODZ": "today's", "WHAES": "what's", "WHATS": "what's", "WHEPBZ": "when's", "WRAOES": "where's", "EFRGS": "everything's", "KHEURPBS": "children's", "KROEPBS": "Crohn's", "TPAOUBGS": "Fuch's", "PHROPBS": "Parkinson's"
• asterisk/star e.g. "WH*S": "when's", "WR*S": "where's", "T*S": "it's", "HAO*ES": "he's", "HO*US": "how's", "KWR*S": "why's", "WH*S": "when's", "WH*EPBS": "when's", "WHO*S": "who's", "W*UPBS": "one's", "WHA*S": "what's", "WR*S": "where's", "WRAO*ES": "where's", "HAO*ERS": "here's", "SHO*US": "so how's"

(There are multi-stroke alternatives like /AES for 's but this is focused on single-stroke briefs.)

So maybe on the balance it's actually more common to use spinal briefs e.g. THR-S for two-words e.g. there is and asterisks e.g. THR*S for contractions e.g. there's. That would only leave "W-RS": "where's", "TH-TS": "that's", "T-S": "it's" as exceptions, which also have other alternatives like "WR*S": "where's", and "THATS": "that's"

I don't enjoy swapping entries that people might be used to like changing THR-S from there's to there is but maybe it'd be worth it for improving consistency? Not sure.

What do you think @Monniasza ?

[Monniasza]

Keep the existing stroke THR-S for "there's", and define THR*S as "there is"