24% Disapproving, 22% Dissatisfied, 18% Anxious

[BuckyDuckman]

Nope, not talking about commentators on my stories, I'm looking at my latest email from Grammarly.

Like some, I used Grammarly as a second spell and grammar check before posting. Of course, the Grammarly extension picks up on more than just my story writing, it's correcting this as I write it, so some of those words are from non-story writing. (No, I don't pay for their service, I only take advantage of their free offerings.)

Since I used it to check a 10-page Lit story, my word count for last week turned out to be 189,935 words, placing me in the 99 percentile for the number of words and number of unique words.

Here's their rating for the tone of my writings from last week:

1. Disapproving - 24*%
2. Dissatisfied - 22*%
3. Anxious - 18*%
4. Formal - 10*%
5. Joyful - 7*%
6. Appreciative - 4*%
7. Friendly - 3*%

With an incest story of forbidden love between siblings while one of them is going through a messy divorce, that feels about right.

 

[sirhugs]

Nope, not talking about commentators on my stories, I'm looking at my latest email from Grammarly.

Like some, I used Grammarly as a second spell and grammar check before posting. Of course, the Grammarly extension picks up on more than just my story writing, it's correcting this as I write it, so some of those words are from non-story writing. (No, I don't pay for their service, I only take advantage of their free offerings.)

Since I used it to check a 10-page Lit story, my word count for last week turned out to be 189,935 words, placing me in the 99 percentile for the number of words and number of unique words.

Here's their rating for the tone of my writings from last week:

1. Disapproving - 24*%
2. Dissatisfied - 22*%
3. Anxious - 18*%
4. Formal - 10*%
5. Joyful - 7*%
6. Appreciative - 4*%
7. Friendly - 3*%

With an incest story of forbidden love between siblings while one of them is going through a messy divorce, that feels about right.

But it was a GREAT story of WONDERFUL forbidden love that felt just right. And I write as one who generally is not a big sibling sex fan.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I usually don't look at their tone ratings that much. It may be more useful for other writers.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yeah, I don't look at that stuff either. I see no point in having them tell me the tone of my story. I already know the tone of my story before I even write the damn thing.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Yeah, I don't look at that stuff either. I see no point in having them tell me the tone of my story. I already know the tone of my story before I even write the damn thing.

Agreed, I just find the the AI behind it interesting.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Agreed, I just find the the AI behind it interesting.

I recently downloaded Hemingway... yikes. The one story I ran through it said I was writing at a level third graders would understand? WTF? It was a Sci-Fi story will no sex and used a lot of technical words and such. It then went on to claim I had a bunch of sentences that would be hard to read. What? But, it's written so a third grader would understand.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

I recently downloaded Hemingway... yikes. The one story I ran through it said I was writing at a level third graders would understand? WTF? It was a Sci-Fi story will no sex and used a lot of technical words and such. It then went on to claim I had a bunch of sentences that would be hard to read. What? But, it's written so a third grader would understand.

Did Microsoft Word have a similar feature? I seem to remember the ability to adjust the grade level of your content or something like that. Maybe it was a different piece of software before Word took over.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Did Microsoft Word have a similar feature? I seem to remember the ability to adjust the grade level of your content or something like that. Maybe it was a different piece of software before Word took over.

Don't remember that and I've been using word since Windows 3.1. That's back when you booted to DOS and then at the c: prompt typed Windows. Those were the days.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Don't remember that and I've been using word since Windows 3.1. That's back when you booted to DOS and then at the c: prompt typed Windows. Those were the days.

Word has it as part of the spelling and grammar check: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...atistics-85b4969e-e80a-4777-8dd3-f7fc3c8b3fd2

Word uses the Flesch and Flesch-Kincaid scores, which are based on word length and sentence length. They don't factor in how common the words are so they can go badly wrong. For instance:

"He filed a writ of estoppel" - short sentence, mostly short words, F-K rates this as grade 2.4.

"I am a pterodactyl and my grandmother is a pterodactyl and my grandfather is a pterodactyl" - long sentence with several long words, scores as grade 12.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Word has it as part of the spelling and grammar check: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...atistics-85b4969e-e80a-4777-8dd3-f7fc3c8b3fd2

Word uses the Flesch and Flesch-Kincaid scores, which are based on word length and sentence length. They don't factor in how common the words are so they can go badly wrong. For instance:

"He filed a writ of estoppel" - short sentence, mostly short words, F-K rates this as grade 2.4.

"I am a pterodactyl and my grandmother is a pterodactyl and my grandfather is a pterodactyl" - long sentence with several long words, scores as grade 12.

Well, you learn something knew every day. I really never looked around in that area, I just turned off the grammar crap as it was wrong half the time. I do use the spell check as I have a bad habit of typing things worng. Oops.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Well, you learn something knew every day. I really never looked around in that area, I just turned off the grammar crap as it was wrong half the time. I do use the spell check as I have a bad habit of typing things worng. Oops.

Yeah, same. When I typed those example sentences in, Word wanted to correct that second example to "...and my grandmother are a pterodactyl..." so there's still some room for improvement. Parsing English is a hard problem.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yeah, same. When I typed those example sentences in, Word wanted to correct that second example to "...and my grandmother are a pterodactyl..." so there's still some room for improvement. Parsing English is a hard problem.

It is. And word probably thought? that pterodactyl was plural of pterodactie.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It is. And word probably thought? that pterodactyl was plural of pterodactie.

I tried a few combinations, and I think what's happening is that it's spotting "a pterodactyl and my grandmother is", then interpreting "a pterodactyl and my grandmother" as a list of two things which should take a plural verb, instead of recognising the "and" as separating two independent clauses.

If I try "I am a fish and my grandmother is tired" I get the same erroneous correction, but "I am a fish, and my grandmother is tired" goes through.