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From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: grammatik mac
Message-ID: <25FFE35F.20724@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 18:47:58 GMT
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Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes:

[scathing review of Grammatik Mac]

>What a flame, eh?  What do other users feel about it?  Do you guys concur?

I do.  However, I also do not think this program (or any automatic
checker) should be used as the sole source of error correction.  I'd
expect someone writing to have a passing acquaintance with grammar
rules, etc.  For myself at least, Grammatik Mac points out some
obscure things that I might otherwise miss.  It also points out a
lot of other things which are often not problems.  And yes, it even
offers incorrect solutions to non-problems.  I generally just ignore
the bad stuff, just like I ignore it when MS Word's spelling checker
says I've misspelled a word I know is correct.  Of course, Grammatik
Mac has no "User Rules" file...  I'm somewhat distressed to hear
that it is inconsistent, though.  I haven't seen this, but perhaps I
haven't used it enough yet to notice it.
-- 
Mark Nagel
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