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NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any document attached hereto is intended only for the named recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, nor the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message in confidence to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmittal or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmittal and/or attachments in error, please notify me immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. -----Original Message----- From: McLauchlan, Kevin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 July 2010 18:18 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [discuss] RE: [users] Re: ANN: English Grammar Checker Extension for OpenOffice.org NoOp [mailto:[email protected]] mentioned: > > This might be of interest: > <http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-limits-read ability-and-grammar-extensions> Hee heeeee. Bruce's irony meter must be pinging the peg... Probably the Google ads change on a rotation, but at the end of his article, eruditely trashing automated grammar and readability checkers, I found - big as life and twice as ugly - an ad for: "Grammarly Instant Grammar Checker World's most accurate grammar checker. Correct all grammar errors and enhance your texts. [ > Try Now ] " OK, so you had to be there. But I thought it was a hoot. Oh, the indignity. "Oh, the ignominiousness!" (quoting Doggie Daddy after embarrassing himself in front of Augie Doggy) Before reading Bruce's article, I would have argued that writers should rely on skill, knowledge, their own brains, at least in their native language, but that various checking tools would be helpful for people writing in a second or third language. Now, I admit his point that such checkers give an authoritative impression that might not be deserved, and that could get a person into trouble when they write outside their best-internalized language(s). Still, as long as the tool is up to current standards or better, then it likely has some value. If you are the target market for such a tool and you _don't_ use one, then people (like recruiters) might wonder why you didn't either use a tool or borrow a native speaker. I'm just not sure what to make of this that you said: > Thanks Raphael. BTW: testing: > why aren't we all get along? > You not look good today. > http://www.polishmywriting.com/ > shows "No writing errors were found.". > Seems a bit odd to me. A big "me too" here. What up wid dat? Raphael _did_ say "beta", and not alpha? - Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] ______________________________________________ This e-mail delivery was managed by Proximitum Ltd Proximitum ~ Making IT Simple For more information visit: http://www.proximitum.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
