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My answer?
"A useful gramamar checker needs to be able to watch a user write, and adapt to their writing style. This should be its primary function--watching the user, noting where they vary against the 'norm', and varying the norm how the user varies it."
Not so useful for someone with atrocious grammar (Score:2)
Re:Not so useful for someone with atrocious gramma (Score:2)
Depends on how it was built. There's no reason that the same adaptive program wouldn't be able to report on a person's grammatical irregularities.
Plus, habbiutal comma users--such as myself, in many aspects--are more practitioners of a new form of language, such as shakesphere, rather than misadherents to what came before us.
Then again, the simple difference
Re:Not so useful for someone with atrocious gramma (Score:2)
Re:Not so useful for someone with atrocious gramma (Score:2)
Mere semantics. I challenge you to find a college english professor who will argue for a difference between "grammar" and "[formal] style".