RE: Grammar Checker

Subject: RE: Grammar Checker
From: "Margaret Secara" <margaret -dot- secara -at- alphather -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:29:23 -0700


I find those squiggles so distracting, I keep them turned off permanently. They don't make me look closer at anything; they just tick me off because I'm a terrible typist (I know, like that's a surprise). The Backspace key gets more work than anything else on my keyboard. I know when I've mistyped, most of the time, and the squiggles just pop on and off constantly.

The one thing I need is the one thing they can't do: find mis-typed words that are real words. I know the difference between too/to/two, their/there/they're, than/then, and it's/its, but my fingers bang out the wrong ones all the time. A machine checker can't catch those, because it can't read!

It can't read and I can't type. Nice combination. :-)


Maggie Secara




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