On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:35:05 +0100, "Terry Farrell"
wrote:
It's almost impossible to be 'fallible' with English grammar because it is
too complex, has too many exceptions to rules; even scholars and reference
books disagree over many of the finer points, let alone simple points such
as the use of the comma. A perfect grammar checker would constantly dispute
it self. So it must be getting close 
It's good you said "almost". A perfect grammar checker may be
impossible, but not for the reasons you cite. You remind me of the
Luddite professor I had in a computer science class way back in 1968.
He professed to the class that computers would never be able to
"think". As an example, he stated that computers would never be able
to play chess at the grand master level. He had the handicap of being
a member of a fundamentalist religion. I'm not sure what your problem
is.
In any case, this is all irrelevant to my original point. The sentence
the grammar checker flagged is perfectly correct even if it doesn't
measure up to your standards. Worse, it flags some sentences and not
other similar sentences. This is a bug in the grammar checker no
matter what the Microsoft apologists say. It's a bug.
Terry Farrell
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
But even if a softie were to be there wouldn't something like this be
pretty low priority? I've always felt the grammar checker was designed to
flag areas that you need to scrutinize and wasn't intended to be
infallible.
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Beth Melton
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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While I would not hold my breath waiting, the
microsoft.public.word.spelling.grammar newsgroups would be a more
appropriate newsgroup than this one. Very, very, very occasionally,
there is a Microsoft employee who provides responses in that group.