Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 29/03/09 22:29, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>> Dutch nouns are preceded by the definite article "de" or "het" in
>> the singular. As a non-native, I would like to configure vim to
>> check if I have used the correct form.
>>
>> Has anyone implemented this or this type of functionality?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
> I'm not sure it's possible with the spelling software Vim uses, since
> this is not a pure "vocabulary" word ("this word does / doesn't belong
> to the language") but a "grammar" rule ("this valid word is / isn't
> permitted in this context"):
>
> het huis OK (the house)
> de huis not OK
> het grote huis OK (the big house)
> het groot huis not OK
> welk huis? OK (which house?)
> welke huis? not Ok
> welk groot huis? OK (which big house?)
> welk grote huis? not OK
> de weg OK (the way)
> het weg not OK
> de lange weg OK (the long way)
> de lang weg not OK
> welke weg? OK (which way?)
> welk weg? not OK
> welke lange weg? OK (which long way?)
> welke lang weg? not OK
>
> ik wil OK (I want)
> je wil not OK
> je wilt OK (you [sg.] want)
> wilt je? not OK
> wil je? OK (do you want?)
> wij wil not OK
> wij willen OK (we want)
>
> etc.
>
> I may be wrong though, spelling software is not my forte. Maybe Dr. Chip
> will know the details better.
>
I'm afraid that I don't know vim's spellchecking real well; I wrote
engspchk awhile ago, but its largely been superceded by vim's built-in
spelling checker. Also, I regret to admit that I don't know any Dutch
and sit so far back in the language bus that I can't even see Tony from
here. However, Tony's observation concerning grammar vs spelling seems
correct to me. Grammar checking is an involved topic and AFAIK there
aren't any plugins to do that for vim in any language. I realize that
MSWord does have grammar checking (at least it does for English), but I
seem to recall that they paid $$$ to import some special s/w developed
to do that in a university setting.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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