Re: Suggestion for English rule - masters thesis > master's thesis

2016-06-22 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
Imho, it depends. If you wrote it : "my master's thesis" If your master wrote it : "my masters thesis" but I am not a native English speaker :-) Purodha On 22.06.2016 18:33, Marco A.G.Pinto wrote: > Hello! > > Using MS Word 2016 I typed "blah blah my masters thesis" and Word > suggested me to

Suggestion for English rule - masters thesis > master's thesis

2016-06-22 Thread Marco A.G.Pinto
Hello! Using MS Word 2016 I typed "blah blah my masters thesis" and Word suggested me to replace "masters" with "master's". Could this rule be added to LanguageTool? Thanks! Kind regards, >Marco A.G.Pinto --- -- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Non-overlapping anti-pattern

2016-06-22 Thread Andriy Rysin
Currently for antipattern to work it needs to overlap with the pattern. Would it make sense to add an attribute (e.g. "overlap") that can be set to false so the antipattern can be appied anywhere in the sentence? E.g. often in rules when I need to guess the context by some words in the sentence I

Re: Suggestion for English rule - masters thesis > master's thesis

2016-06-22 Thread Nick Hough
It would be the other way around: If you wrote it : "my masters thesis”, because it is the thesis from your “masters" degree If your master wrote it : "my master’s thesis”, because the thesis is owned (hence the possessive apostrophe) by the “master" Both could be valid English. Which version

Re: Suggestion for English rule - masters thesis > master's thesis

2016-06-22 Thread Purodha Blissenbach
Ouch! Nick, you put it the right way. That is what I wanted to write, but I messed it up. I'm sorry. Puroda On 22.06.2016 23:50, Nick Hough wrote: > It would be the other way around: > > If you wrote it : "my masters thesis”, because it is the thesis from > your “masters" degree > If your master