Microsoft Word Spelling and Grammar Check- correct version.
The e-mail I sent out earlier seems to have acquired some additional formatting on the way (thanks to my mailer). I have, therefore, posted it on my blog. Please see- http://sandeepworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-word-spel ling-and-grammar.html or http://tinyurl.com/4payv Sorry! Let me know what you think. Sandeep Krishnamurthy http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep http://sandeepworld.blogspot.com
Hi all ! I tried the spelling check in Pages from Apple. Pages doesn't seem to have grammar check, but it sweetly suggested "Mc Donnell's" instead of "McDonalds"... Incidently, the software has the following interesting choices for English as a language to check: Australian English, British English, Canadian English and English... Talk about bias! Ylva H, speaker of Swedish and X English (or something) ---------------------------------------------- Ylva Hard af Segerstad, Ph.D. Dept. of Linguistics Goteborg University Box 200 SE-405 30 Goteborg Sweden Email: ylva@ling.gu.se Phone: +46 31 773 4532 URL: http://www.ling.gu.se/~ylva/ ---------------------------------------------- 2005-03-21 kl. 17.01 skrev Sandeep Krishnamurthy:
The e-mail I sent out earlier seems to have acquired some additional formatting on the way (thanks to my mailer). I have, therefore, posted it on my blog. Please see-
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Sorry! Let me know what you think.
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Hi Sandeep, I used Grammarian, with the grammar set at "common", it picked up numerous grammar errors. Some correct but more often than not it made bad suggestions about what was wrong. for example for the first sentence it suggested "Marketing is bad for brand" When I added McDonalds to the dictionary it accepted the second sentence. It then decided that McDonald's was incorrect which of course it might be as McDonald can be a surname. But I personally liked the change it suggested to "Internets make good brand" it detected the missing article and suggested "Internets make the (alt a) good brand" It just serves to illustrate how complex the English language is. I used the Australia English dictionary that comes with Grammarian Andrew. On 22/03/2005, at 3:01 AM, Sandeep Krishnamurthy wrote:
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Sorry! Let me know what you think.
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Whoops what was I thinking? Just shows how much notice I take of trade names McDonalds as in the company does have an apostrophe. It's URL of course is mcdonalds.com Anyway never eat there myself so will plead complete ignorance. Andrew. On 22/03/2005, at 3:01 AM, Sandeep Krishnamurthy wrote:
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or
Sorry! Let me know what you think.
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