W dniu 2014-12-22 o 11:33, Daniel Naber pisze: > On 2014-12-20 11:32, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote: > > Heikki, > >> I've set up a gist with 80 English rules that (mostly) expand >> redundant/wordy rules in LanguageTools 2.7. Testrules script passes >> these, but it would be good for someone to go though them before >> inclusion to the main rules file. >> >> https://gist.github.com/heikkil/4efc378102037651f755 [1] > > thanks for those rules! Style rules can cause false alarms, or the > messages could be considered to be false alarms, so I'm not sure whether > we should activate these rules by default. What do others think?
I think these rules are following extreme prescriptivism. I am strongly against the inclusion of such rules as turned on by default, because they raise false alarms for perfect English. My rough guide is this: if your rules tell that Jane Austen and Charles Dickens are bad writers, then your rules are simply wrong. And Dickens does use the words indicated in the rules; see for example 'accompany': https://books.google.pl/books?id=INkAes9Y5AYC&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=accompany+%22charles+dickens%22&source=bl&ots=_lFgWHI48o&sig=X1vs7tIDaTPM9WSA7sGsXCPOwRo&hl=pl&sa=X&ei=zg6YVK6RCMWBU-XEgdAF&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=accompany%20%22charles%20dickens%22&f=false (page 223). This said, they might be useful for technical writing; in such writing, linguistic variation is indeed to be limited. But Mike Unwalla would know better. Best regards, Marcin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
