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Quirk in W2003 grammar
On Mar 21, 4:06*am, "L. Mohan Arun" wrote:
In response to the irritating "grammatim" "(2) L. Mohan Arun is not competent to assert what is and what is not a grammatical sentence of English (witness his repeated insistence that "software" can legitimately take a plural verb)." I never asked you to assess my competence and your self-made judgement is uncalled for. And *you* are not competent either, unless you can prove your qualifications. If you set yourself up as writing in English for publication, then you must demonstrate competence in writing the language. What would you consider "proof" of my qualifications? A copy of my birth certificate, showing that I was born in New York City more than half a century ago? Copies of mail addressed to me to show that I have never lived outside the United States? School and university transcripts? My c.v. showing hundreds of publications in linguistics? "This thread from the start has had nothing to do with using Word. " Again, very irritating, because it is about Word grammar. This newsgroup is about how to use Word. It is not about the intricacies of English grammar, or the poor quality of computer grammar checkers. i have tons more quirks in Word grammar which I havent had time to report. I am not saying the grammar checker is perfect, which may be a difficult goal to achieve. But I am pointing out specific instances which can be taken into consideration in refining the grammar checker in Word further. Then you should be complaining to the Microsoft Corporation, not to a newsgroup of Word users. |
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