[grammatim[_2_]]

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.