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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] Grammar checkers in OO
From:       Olav Pettershagen <olav.pettershagen () trysil ! online ! no>
Date:       2002-09-04 9:04:08
Message-ID: 200209041104.08449.olav.pettershagen () trysil ! online ! no
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On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:33, Dennis Nigbur wrote:
> It's no loss. Computer-based grammar checkers tend to be a pain in
> the backside more than anything else, and previous attempts to
> implement such a feature have not had the scope to allow anything but
> the blandest variety of what I came to call "Microsoft Grammar"

Amen, and even if all computer and language experts in the world combined all 
their efforts and knowledge towards this single task they would probably not 
be able to write a useful grammar checker even for a single language. Some 
tasks are still too complex for computers :).

Olav

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