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Are MS Word's Grammar Checker Well Enough, Professor Asks
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| March 29, 2005
Posted on 03/30/2005 8:30:57 AM PST by Vision Thing
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To: Vision Thing
Thank heavens for people who want to take the time needed to fix this stuff. Seems like a huge task to me.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:32:03 AM PST
by
RushCrush
(The FReeper formerly known as Alias. I AM equal time!!)
To: Vision Thing
Yes, it's the software's fault...
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:32:15 AM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(I considered getting highlights; but my smugness is easier to maintain.)
To: Vision Thing
Microsoft Word spokesman Chris Pratley said the best way to ensure grammar is correct is to pay attention in school. If the computer says it's wrong, it likely is.
But if the computer DOES NOT say it's wrong, that DOES NOT mean that it's right.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:33:29 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Vision Thing
"the best way to ensure grammar is correct is to pay attention in school.'
--> Too bad our teachers unions and all the thugs (executives that rip off the sckools) aren't doing their jobs. Parents need to do their jobs too. Let's put blame where it belongs.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:34:05 AM PST
by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: Vision Thing
Ok..how many of you went and actually tried this to see if it was true ? Don't be shy.....raise your hands........specially you...you in the back.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:34:23 AM PST
by
stylin19a
(Always remember - don't ever forget - "One Good Turn........GETS ALL THE BLANKETS !)
To: Vision Thing
Mine skips obvious errors.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:35:33 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: Izzy Dunne
Feh! Who needs a grammar checker, anyway! That are a stupid idea!
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:36:02 AM PST
by
TheBigB
("She's the kind of girl you bring home to Mother... if Mother is a cigaretty, retired hooker.")
To: Vision Thing
The student complained that she had used the software to check for errors. So....it was Bill Gates' fault she is an idiot? I thought the point of college was to learn things like grammar.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:36:44 AM PST
by
WBurgVACon
(Proud member Tau Kappa Epsilon - along with Ronald Regan)
To: Vision Thing
``He says he discovered problems after scolding a student he'd given a poor grade for submitting a paper filled with grammatical errors. The student complained that she had used the software to check for errors.'' Typical 'student'. She complains instead of attempting to learn something.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:36:45 AM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: Vision Thing
With Word '97 I turned the grammar checker off. It was really bad. With the latest version I leave it on, but it is not perfect and never will be.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:36:58 AM PST
by
js1138
(Omne ignotum pro magnifico)
To: Vision Thing
Last paragraph translated into Ebonics...
Microsoft says grammar iz almost impossible fo' uh geekbox ta master cuz it requires artificial intelligence dat ain't available. Microsoft Word spokesman Chris Pratley said da bomb way ta ensure grammar iz correct iz ta pay attention in skoo. peep this s***
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:37:05 AM PST
by
Drango
(My tag line is takin' a nap. Please come back later.)
To: Vision Thing
Are MS Word's Grammar Checker Well Enough, Professor AsksTheir not.
They're not.
There not.
Are kids need English classes.
Our kids need English classes.
Too many kids don't know homonyms.
Two many kids don't know homonyms.
To many kids don't know homonyms.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:37:21 AM PST
by
xrp
(Executing assigned posting duties flawlessly -- ZERO mistakes)
To: Vision Thing
Isn't this a little like a teacher finding that students can't handle math -- because their calculators were not very good? And the solution is to contact the calculator manufacturer?
Teachers should expect students to write well. Using MS Word is a crutch. If the crutch fails the student, the student should blame himself for depending on the crutch in the first place.
This teacher is part of the problem, IMO.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:37:50 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Vision Thing; msdrby; Corin Stormhands
It's worthless to me anyway. Word has no clue how do cope with specialized terminology.
I really on me skooling insted.
To: stylin19a
The way I learned how to punctuate sentences properly, aside from learning about grammar in school, was to simply repeat the sentence and place a comma wherever I took a breath. This worked very well until I became and asthmatic. Whenever I was short of breath, the number of commas went way up. After I took a shot off the inhaler, the commas went back down.
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:38:08 AM PST
by
appeal2
To: Vision Thing
Me fail english? That's unpossible!
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:38:14 AM PST
by
Petronski
(If Reichskanzler Greer can kill Terri, who will be next?)
To: Vision Thing
so before computers, who would he have blamed?
To: stylin19a
how many of you went and actually tried this to see if it was true ? I hadn't until you asked. I did check, and it is in fact true (on Microsoft Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3)). I believed the article at face value becuase I have found that Microsoft Word doesn't pick up grammar errors myself.
To: Professional Engineer; msdrby
Word has no clue how do cope with specialized terminology. Yep. When I was working in health policy, Word would constantly want to replace "HMOs" with "homos."
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posted on
03/30/2005 8:39:41 AM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(Some days my tagline has nothing to say...)
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