Not a simple request by any means, I know, but it would be great to have Spell Catcher work together with a grammar checker, as happened before Grammarian was sold.
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Grammar Checker.
Started by pjfw, Nov 23 2003 09:10 AM
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Posted 23 November 2003 - 09:20 PM
pjfw, on Nov 23 2003, 10:10 AM, said:
Not a simple request by any means, I know, but it would be great to have Spell Catcher work together with a grammar checker, as happened before Grammarian was sold.
Any particular grammar checker you have in mind?
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Posted 08 December 2003 - 03:18 PM
None in particular in mind, but if there was, I would want it to be not language specific. What I mean by that is, I would like the grammar checker to use the language dictionary of choice. For example if I am using the English UK dictionary or the English Canadian (when it comes out 
I would like it to use those words other than the ones built into the grammar checker (which is usually English US).
Cheers and thanks.
Andrew.
PS eagerly awaiting the Canadian English Dictionary.
I would like it to use those words other than the ones built into the grammar checker (which is usually English US).Cheers and thanks.
Andrew.
PS eagerly awaiting the Canadian English Dictionary.
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Posted 08 December 2003 - 06:13 PM
skippingrock, on Dec 8 2003, 03:18 PM, said:
None in particular in mind, but if there was, I would want it to be not language specific. What I mean by that is, I would like the grammar checker to use the language dictionary of choice. For example if I am using the English UK dictionary or the English Canadian (when it comes out ;) I would like it to use those words other than the ones built into the grammar checker (which is usually English US).
Cheers and thanks.
Andrew.
PS eagerly awaiting the Canadian English Dictionary.
Cheers and thanks.
Andrew.
PS eagerly awaiting the Canadian English Dictionary.
Not just that, creating a grammar checker that works on variants of English may be possible, but one that works in various Roman languages would be next to impossible. You pretty much have to create a separate product for each different language. Each takes (say) 5-20 man-years to develop. So you'd be waiting quite some time for something to appear from scratch that worked in 5 or 6 different languages.
And then it probably wouldn't work as well as you wanted it to, anyway.
Such is the fate of grammar checkers. Very, very difficult things to get to work even reasonably well.
