There is an official advice for Dutch, stating that for understandable reading, an average of no more than 12 words a sentence is required.
Since I can only make rule per sentence, I made a rule, warning for sentences of more than 18 words. That rule hits in about 45% of all sentences! I made another one, triggering from 30 up. That one still triggers in 11% of all sentences. Then there is one alerts from 50 upwards. That one is seen in about 1.5% of all sentences. So I am sure us Dutch make too long sentences overall. A rule triggering at that much sentences is a nuisance. Should I set the first 2 to be off by default? And have the one with 50 set to 'on'? Or should I try to stick to 'enforcing' the understandability of text? You probably dealt with issues like this, so I would like to hear your opinions. Ruud ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
