Re: [libreoffice-users] Good English Grammar checker?

Hi :)

Don't aim at being perfect.  There is no such thing anyway and it takes too 
long.  The trick is probably to respond well to criticism and perhaps build in 
some way of correcting later.  Don't worry.

People here might be willing to quickly proof-read some things if there is 
somewhere such as google docs that you can place a rough draft?

Regards from
Tom :)





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From: MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 23 January, 2011 18:18:48
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Good English Grammar checker?

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:22 AM, baldwin linguas
<baldwinlinguas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, webmaster@krackedpress.com
> <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> > What I really need to find is a Grammar checker that will spot
> > things that I miss with my "stroke damaged brain" or someone
> > with the symptoms of Dyslexia.  People like me have a problem
> > with spotting missing words or wrong words for the text sentence.
>
>
> You're asking for way more than a computer will EVER do.
> I'm a language professional (translator/interpret), and a hacker, and
> I tell you, computers will
> never fully replace translators or editors.
> Computers may be useful in such areas, but their work will always, always
> have to looked over by a competent, human editor prior to being
> "perfected" for publication.
> The idea of a "universal translator" (as seen on Star Trek) is just a
> pipe dream.
> A universal editor would be no different.
> No system or program, not MSOrifice or LibreOffice or any other includes
> the feature with the level of accuracy/capacity that you seek.
That pretty much says it all.

In webmaster's situation, I would just use what's available and hope
for the best.

LO picks up some of the problems you've mentioned, but not all, and
you still have to look at each one to see what the problem is.

IMO, Word is slightly better than LO, which is better than what OO had
when I was using it (before LO beta1 came out).  Don't know about
others like WordPerfect, etc.

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