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Given the number of times the red squiggly is wrong, in my long,
technical documentation, it's overwhelming rate of error just causes me
to ignore it, and dislike it, and turn it off, and have a poor opinion
of the grammar chucker in general.
That is, it cries wolf so many times that (when it is turned on) I
ignore it even when it is right (I suppose, I'm just guessing here
because I don't really pay attention to it any more).
I suppose I agree, though, that in some instances, for some people, the
grammar checker included with Word might be a benefit.
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From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
I mean that a red squiggly line tells me I should look more closely. And
a green squiggly line also tells me I should look more closely (for
non-Word users, those are the devices Word uses to mark spelling and
grammar "errors" it detects, respectively).
These marks don't tell me that the software knows more than I do or that
I should defer to the judgment of some programmer somewhere. They tell
me that there _might_ be an error.
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