Alexander Thurgood, I was talking about the sort of languages where nouns have gender and adjectives and participles have to agree with them. French has elaborate verb conjugaison, and German, Greek etc. also have declensions. If you change one word when revising a document this has knock-on effects on the rest of the sentence that even a native who is sure of their ability can easily miss, especially if there is an urgent deadline.
When I introduced IT in a French primary school in about 1985, the teacher immediately spotted the possibilities for helping pupils who had difficulty learning spelling and grammar. I suppose that older people complain about the poor language skills of the young in every country in the world ;-). I go on about this because OOo doesn't have enough facilities (you have to use a separate website), and many users live in places like Africa and India and the USA where it is very common for people to have to use a second or third language. Of course, the same goes for multinational companies. Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexander Thurgood [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] To: crl64 Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:56 AM Subject: Re: Help File Le 26/01/11 20:53, crl64 a écrit : Hi, > grammar checker is also vital, because everybody makes and misses mistakes > which look horrible to the reader. > I have yet to encounter a grammar checker that gets it right 100% of the time, so IMHO, what is the point of having one, when I can do it myself, and make the same or fewer, mistakes ? Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [hidden email] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Help-File-tp2335488p2372276.html To unsubscribe from Help File, click here. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Help-File-tp2335488p2383093.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
