On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:19 pm, Bear Tooth wrote:
> Strange. We're both grammarians (linguists, actually), and
> would never have guessed. I was going to read up on the thing when
> mention was first made here that one was going to be added, and
> should've guessed that might be it; but I never got around to doing
> the reading. I've got a sneakin' hunch the idea of grammar popular
> with the programmers & developers of that app may be rather
> dissimilar from ours, which is built on usage and history ....
The last time I used the Microsoft grammar checker (in Word 97), I found quite
a few things which I don't think my English teachers would have approved. (I
am not a grammarian.)
Anyway, at that time I tried to interest some English teachers in having a
dialog with Microsoft on the subject--I don't think that went anywhere.
I don't think it is the intention of the AbiWord developers (I'm not one, just
a lurker) to set the standard for English (or any other language's) usage.
As I understand it, AbiWord uses a plug-in (library, or similar) for the
grammar checker--someone will surely post the name, and then I suspect you
will want to make your comments to the author of that package.
Randy Kramer
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