2 Jan
2007
2 Jan
'07
9:06 p.m.
Tim wrote:
I'd go along with that. I am a native English speaker, and I've found word processing grammar checking tools leave a lot to be desired. Some of the results, I've seen, give you the impression that a 12 year old wrote the document. They might find some glaring errors, but more subtle ones go un-noticed.
Mike McCarty:
I think you have unreasonable expectations.
I don't agree. I don't really expect them to be able to do any better than they do. Human language is a rather complex thing, with some quite large regional variations. But computer programmers like to try and reduce things down to the lowest common denominator. The two are opposite goals.
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