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

On 01/23/2011 11:22 AM, baldwin linguas 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.
>
> ./tony
I know that no system is perfect, but I could use whatever help there is
out there for these tasks.  There was talk on the OOo list a while back
about a Grammar add-on project, but I do not know it it ever got finished.

It would be nice to have an option for "sound alike" words like "aunt" 
and "ant".
Of course it would be nice if I could spell properly, or close enough 
for the
spell checker to give me a list that has the word I am looking for.

So does any one know of some free system that would run on Ubuntu
that does more than LO does for grammar checking?  Even a stand alone
package would help.


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