4/1/2023 0 Comments Grammarian pro activation![]() ![]() Parsing English is very hard, and it doesn’t surprise me that Grammarian would sometimes get things like include/includes wrong. It said “ameliorate” was bookish (yes, but not for a technical report) and suggested “improved” or “cured,” neither of which would have fit.It suggested I change “codes that address this type of loading include” to “codes that address this type of loading include s,” apparently thinking that “include” referred to “type” rather than “codes.”.To say “certainly” is vague is just laughable. It said the word “certainly” was vague and suggested “surely,” and “positively” as replacements.Some of its criticisms happened to be wrong for the tone and audience of the report, but Grammarian can’t know those things and I don’t fault it for making the suggestions it made. Some of its criticisms were valid, and I wish I had written those passages according to Grammarian’s suggestions. These are plain text files there is no excuse for Grammarian’s failure.įor reasons I cannot explain, Grammarian finally got past its “i” problem on one report and gave a real critique. Out of eight reports I tried, Grammarian had this problem on seven and was therefore useless. ![]() But I think I’m on solid ground when I say the capitalization rule does not apply to an “i” in the middle of a word! Yes, Grammarian flagged every “i” in my report with this insightful error message, colored it red and underlined it. Now, this is, of course, a legitimate complaint when the “i” referred to is the personal pronoun. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the reported errors were legitimate, but the only error message I saw was Capitalization: Capitalize proper nouns. (Yes, I recognize the irony of writing the previous sentence in passive voice that’s why I wrote it that way.) I hoped that telling Grammarian (through a menu option) to classify the report a Technical would reduce the complaints about passive voice and the use of “to be” verbs. This was a technical report and, as is often the case with technical reports, it had a lot of passive voice. Moving past the aesthetics, I opened a recently written report (in Markdown format) in TextMate and told Grammarian to critique it. So now I have two new menus when Grammarian is active, and they have the same menu items. There’s a Grammarian preference-checked by default-called “Show Grammarian’s menu and dock icon.” I unchecked it and the dock icon disappeared, but the menu icon didn’t. This is a lot of space for a little utility to take up.
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