The next time somebody writes in suggesting a Grammar check funtion you
might point them to this post.
Out of curiousity I took a couple of short passages from posters for
whom English was barely a second language and pasted them into Word.
Then I set the Spelling and Grammar checker loose on them. The results
were interesting.
Original #1:
I am also helpdesk engineer in india,Working in Wipro Ltd.
I am having a problem that.when i installed the any openoffice on the win
xp machine with the network printer driver. after that any of the open
office is not opening or it takes long time to open.
so can you help me out for the same.
I have installed open office beta 2 (1.1.125) and also try out on
1.1.4 and
1.1.5. it create the problems on the lexmark network printer driver, wep
printer or any laser printer driver..
"Corrected" by Word 2000 grammar check:
I am also helpdesk engineer in India, Working in Wipro Ltd.
I am having a problem that. When I installed the any openoffice on the
win xp machine with the network printer driver. After that any of the
open office is not opening or it takes long time to open.
So can you help me out for the same?
I have installed open office beta 2 (1.1.125) and also try out on
1.1.4 and 1.1.5. It creates the problems on the Lexmark network printer
driver, wep printer or any laser printer driver.
Original #2:
Its utility, based on existing in the OpenOffice.Org bilingual wordlists
(such as Russian-Ukrainian (I'm very need it's dictionary!), will be to
rather useful and necessary in daily and literary work with the texts.
Please sorry for my bad knowing the English language, but I from the
Ukraine. ;-)
"Corrected" version:
Its utility, based on existing in the OpenOffice.Org bilingual wordlists
(such as Russian-Ukrainian (I'm very need it's dictionary!), will be to
rather useful and necessary in daily and literary work with the texts.
Please sorry for my bad knowing the English language, but I from the
Ukraine. ;-)
Now this is NOT a slam on the OPs. I assume they are bright,
intelligent, and literate in their native tongues. However, their
command of the English language is a bit rough. I just wanted to
illustrate the complexity and inadequacy of automated grammar checking.
You would expect the result to at least be technically correct, if
stilted. It didn't even catch mistakes that render the text almost
un-intelligible. How much good is this going to do you for more subtle
questions of style?
Rod
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