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I have tried the grammar checker in Word for Windows.
Basically, I have found far too many "false positives."
It diagnoses correct things as being wrong. I have
examined the user-changeable rules, and found nothing
I could tweak. I am a grammar freak, with fond memories
of diagramming sentences. My area of documentation
expertise is (what else?) computer languages and their
grammars.
Now, my wife (with the M.A. in English) has always said
I speak(/write) English with German syntax. She seems to mean
that I have more nuanced command of the perfect, past perfect,
and subjunctive than the Americans not raised in a
Pennsylvania-Dutch-influenced-American-English environment
(yeah, suburban Philly). I do have to make a conscious
effort to use short sentences....
Can anyone out there compare/contrast Grammatik with
the W4W grammar tool? I do wonder whether it would be
worthwhile to feed sample sentences from "The Transitive
Vampire" into a grammar checker, and see what it does with
*them*. :-)
--ghaas -at- informix -dot- com
Guy K. Haas, Sr. Tech Writer RTFM?
Informix Software Inc IWTFT!
4100 Bohannon Dr. ^
Menlo Park, CA 94025
[If I were speaking on behalf of Informix, I'd say so, *explicitly*.]
