[softwarelist] Re: Spull and grammar checking
- From: M Harding <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:56:44 +0100
In article <mpro.ow334504p1aa401rp.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10 Sep, M Harding wrote in message
<567989e2ecriscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
In article <8f3e31ac-6a90-f6fe-d778-204a4e9d0899@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Pilling <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
However, all these years later, Google tells me there are open
source grammar checkers so someone could convert one of those
into an applet.
You'd be on a hiding to nothing. (Or should that read 'You would
be on a hiding to nothing'?) Whose grammar is Google offering: US
or UK?
Google isn't offering any: it's pointing to Open Source projects
via its search tools.
In a way, that reply illustrates one major issue about grammar. It's
subject to variation depending on the context, so that what's
'correct' in an internet dialogue can be much more colloquial than in
a formal one.
My "Whose grammar is Google offering?" is a sloppy shortcut of "To
which link does Google refer: is it American or English grammar?" Or
even "Is the link which Google refers to American or English in
style?" Those versions show 3 variations in grammar, and grammar
checkers might prefer or object to any of them.
My preference is for the precision of classics-based grammar, but in
the realm of computing I recognise that what people write - the
content - is more important than the packaging - how they write it.
Michael Harding
Rev. Preb. M.D. Harding riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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