Untrustyworthiness Grammar Checker

Monday, April 22nd, 2002 at 11:16 AM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 3 comments

Has Grammar Lost Its Technological Edge? (requires free registration) states, “When a professor of English recently compared the grammar-checking features in Word and WordPerfect, he found that Word 2000′s grammar checker was unable to identify any of the most common errors. WordPerfect did somewhat better, but still found fewer than half.”

Furthermore, “The grammar checker you get today in Word is not significantly better than the grammar checker you might have used almost 10 years ago.” [Link LucDesk]

The article uses 1970′s, 1980′s, and 1990′s. Sounds like someone relied too much on his grammar checker and forgot to remove the unneeded apostrophes. That’s gotcha #0075.

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3 comments

  • Posted by John Kenneth Fisher on April 22nd, 2002, 4:34 PM

    You’re gotcha’s frigten me.

  • Posted by joel on April 22nd, 2002, 8:05 PM

    Believe it or not, apostrophes are acceptable when writing numbers referring to decades. It’s one of the more painful things I’ve learned online.

    Now you want to know where, don’t you? Gonna make me go find it again?

    It’s still evil. Please don’t do it.

  • Posted by NJ Meryl on April 24th, 2002, 12:16 AM

    I never let Word tell me my grammar is right or wrong. And even though I use the spell-checker occasionally, it’s usually accompanied by very loud swearing and “WHAT DO YOU MEAN XXXX IS NOT A WORD?!?!”

    It is truly one of the biggest jokes in publishing. A friend of mine who used to work for MS said they outsourced everything, and it wasn’t a high priority. You can tell.

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