Spell/Grammar Check Program

[LAHomedog]

OK. One remedial course coming up. The teacher is IN

Thank you. I've have taken a screen shot of this post and it is now sitting on my desktop for reference.

Since device and browser also seems to be in the conversation. I'm on a MacBook Pro using Firefox. I assume it works the same on all devices and browsers.

 

[gordo12]

Thank you. I've have taken a screen shot of this post and it is now sitting on my desktop for reference.

Since device and browser also seems to be in the conversation. I'm on a MacBook Pro using Firefox. I assume it works the same on all devices and browsers.

VB is an internet standard software for boards like this. It's been around forever. I don't use Mac but it should be close to the same experience as everyone else. Different browsers may render the web page with some small differences but not enough to affect issues like that. The multipost icon should render and function the same regardless of browser.

 

[TadOverdon]

Grammarly is quite certain that chocolate is an uncountable noun, and therefore "a chocolate" is an error.

 

[SimonDoom]

Grammarly is quite certain that chocolate is an uncountable noun, and therefore "a chocolate" is an error.

Curious, because Merriam-Webster says one of the definitions of "chocolate" is a piece of chocolate candy, the plural of which is chocolates.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Curious, because Merriam-Webster says one of the definitions of "chocolate" is a piece of chocolate candy, the plural of which is chocolates.

I like chocolates.

 

[LAHomedog]

therefore "a chocolate" is an error.

Try to explain to my wife.

 

[gordo12]

<rant on>Oh good Lord! Is there no end to this political correctness bullshit?

Grammarly just warned me that a word I used was GENDER BIASED and someone might take offence!

Please give me a few hundred more so I can work them all in! </rant>

 

[Handley_Page]

<rant on>Oh good Lord! Is there no end to this political correctness bullshit?

Grammarly just warned me that a word I used was GENDER BIASED and someone might take offence!

Please give me a few hundred more so I can work them all in! </rant>

Get an earlier version, not burdened with such 'modern' thoughts ?

 

[MillieDynamite]

<rant on>Oh good Lord! Is there no end to this political correctness bullshit?

Grammarly just warned me that a word I used was GENDER BIASED and someone might take offence!

Please give me a few hundred more so I can work them all in! </rant>

Grammarly doesn't warn me about "bad words" but Word does.

Oh wait your talking about words like Lawman, manhandled, and other male centric words. Fuck Grammarly on that, I use them, and and once describe a woman as manhandling a man.

 

[NotWise]

<rant on>Oh good Lord! Is there no end to this political correctness bullshit?

Grammarly just warned me that a word I used was GENDER BIASED and someone might take offence!

Please give me a few hundred more so I can work them all in! </rant>

What was the term?

 

[gordo12]

manhandled Funny thing is in the story it's a female doing it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

<rant on>Oh good Lord! Is there no end to this political correctness bullshit?

Grammarly just warned me that a word I used was GENDER BIASED and someone might take offence!

Please give me a few hundred more so I can work them all in! </rant>

I don't use Grammarly, but I understand it provides the option for users to switch off certain kinds of suggestions:

https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en...Grammarly-Editor#h_01EVEFDMAWRG4E89SMXT56Z7XR

 

[GinnyPPC]

I don't use Grammarly, but I understand it provides the option for users to switch off certain kinds of suggestions:

https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en...Grammarly-Editor#h_01EVEFDMAWRG4E89SMXT56Z7XR

I use ProWritingAid and it does allow for turning types of suggestions on or off. It also has configurations for different English dialects. US/Canada/UK/Australia.

 

[NotWise]

manhandled Funny thing is in the story it's a female doing it.

Huh. I don't get the gender bias. The current meaning is just "handle roughly," which is something that can be done by people with any gender orientation.

 

[gordo12]

Huh. I don't get the gender bias. The current meaning is just "handle roughly," which is something that can be done by people with any gender orientation.

It should probably be changed to personhandled or whatever preferred pronoun they want.

It let femsplained go without a word

 

[gordo12]

I don't use Grammarly, but I understand it provides the option for users to switch off certain kinds of suggestions:

https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en...Grammarly-Editor#h_01EVEFDMAWRG4E89SMXT56Z7XR

You can only do it during the issue. I don't know how extensive it is. I like a lot of suggestions I get so I don't want to lose it completely.

 

[gordo12]

So...to add to the misery.

I have a book almost ready for publishing. Because of the 18,000 word limit in my old Grammarly app, I split the story into two pieces. Early last night I finished the first part. Saved it and clicked it off. Then immediately clicked on part two.

Word has encountered a serious error, do you wish to proceed? NO. Clicked it off.

Waited for 30 seconds then clicked on it again. Word encountered a serious error last time do you wish to proceed? Not much choice so I hit yes.

2/3 of the second part of the story had vanished into cyberspace!

The weird thing was when I used the "open with Libre Office" command the whole story was still there. Copied and pasted it to a new word file then replaced the whole thing. I do have backups in dropbox but I tend not to do a backup when I've only made a few light edits. I would have lost something for sure.

But the good news. Both parts edited now, pasted back together and should be hitting the market sometime next week. My first book!

 

[MillieDynamite]

So...to add to the misery.

I have a book almost ready for publishing. Because of the 18,000 word limit in my old Grammarly app, I split the story into two pieces. Early last night I finished the first part. Saved it and clicked it off. Then immediately clicked on part two.

Word has encountered a serious error, do you wish to proceed? NO. Clicked it off.

Waited for 30 seconds then clicked on it again. Word encountered a serious error last time do you wish to proceed? Not much choice so I hit yes.

2/3 of the second part of the story had vanished into cyberspace!

The weird thing was when I used the "open with Libre Office" command the whole story was still there. Copied and pasted it to a new word file then replaced the whole thing. I do have backups in dropbox but I tend not to do a backup when I've only made a few light edits. I would have lost something for sure.

But the good news. Both parts edited now, pasted back together and should be hitting the market sometime next week. My first book!

Congratulations, Gordo12; I hope it sells a million copies.

 

[gordo12]

Congratulations, Gordo12; I hope it sells a million copies.

Thank you. Already got my personal south sea island picked out.

 

[MillieDynamite]

One issue I have on Grammarly, it seems to have the rules it uses equally split between Chicago Style Guide and AP's Style guide. Other things, The Ellipsis, The EM dash, it don't give a shit which you use or if you are consistent. Sigh!

Edit: My Mum just scolded me for using the word shit here. she can't help it she's an English-Aussie transplanted to America. Looking over my shoulder when I visit home is something she does for fun.

 

[gordo12]

One issue I have on Grammarly, it seems to have the rules it uses equally split between Chicago Style Guide and AP's Style guide. Other things, The Ellipsis, The EM dash, it don't give a shit which you use or if you are consistent. Sigh!

Edit: My Mum just scolded me for using the word shit here. she can't help it she's an English-Aussie transplanted to America. Looking over my shoulder when I visit home is something she does for fun.

Well, hi mom!

The other thing that frequently pops up is curly or straight apostrophes. It demands to make one or the other the default. I've never figured out how I end up with both varieties in my stories. My defaults are set and never change. However when it asks you make your choice and you click on update all. Nothing happens and it opens a new nag box telling me I have a mixture of straight and curly apostrophes...

I've tried using the find and replace but it won't work for punctuation.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, hi mom!

The other thing that frequently pops up is curly or straight apostrophes. It demands to make one or the other the default. I've never figured out how I end up with both varieties in my stories. My defaults are set and never change. However when it asks you make your choice and you click on update all. Nothing happens and it opens a new nag box telling me I have a mixture of straight and curly apostrophes...

I've tried using the find and replace but it won't work for punctuation.

My preferred type is Times New Roman with curly's but curly's don't matter here and neither does the type face.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Edit: My Mum just scolded me for using the word shit here. she can't help it she's an English-Aussie transplanted to America. Looking over my shoulder when I visit home is something she does for fun.

What the fuck is your mum on about? My mum was as English as they come, and would always say "shit" as her swear word of choice. For a Brit to say, "Don't say shit on a smut site" is nonsensical .

 

[MillieDynamite]

What the fuck is your mum on about? My mum was as English as they come, and would always say "shit" as her swear word of choice. For a Brit to say, "Don't say shit on a smut site" is nonsensical .

My mum isn't your mum and my mum is very straight laced, shy, reserved and never uses profanities, NEVER! Which has less to do with where she is from, and more to do with who raised her. I was making a joke about her not being from here. I call her Mum, because that's what she likes me to call her. It also makes anyone listening know I'm talking about her and not my birth mother.

My mum doesn't go on sex sites, she just looks over my shoulder occasional, curious about what I'm doing. She can correct me when she feels I'm not being polite, that was her job before when I first came to live with them. Getting all the fuck yous and shit this, damn that out out of my vocabulary.

And don't attack my Mum, Pops, or Jo in fact, leave my family members out of the discussion if you can't say nice things about them. Don't see me attacking your family about anything, do you?

 

[LAHomedog]

My mum isn't your mum and my mum is very straight laced, shy, reserved and never uses profanities, NEVER! Which has less to do with where she is from, and more to do with who raised her. I was making a joke about her not being from here. I call her Mum, because that's what she likes me to call her. It also makes anyone listening know I'm talking about her and not my birth mother.

My mum doesn't go on sex sites, she just looks over my shoulder occasional, curious about what I'm doing. She can correct me when she feels I'm not being polite, that was her job before when I first came to live with them. Getting all the fuck yous and shit this, damn that out out of my vocabulary.

And don't attack my Mum, Pops, or Jo in fact, leave my family members out of the discussion if you can't say nice things about them. Don't see me attacking your family about anything, do you?

Well, my parents are long dead. My in-laws too. Our folks are our folks. Good and bad. Some are great, some are abusive (our daughter-in-law was sexually abused her entire childhood causing PTSD), but most parents are a neutral. Trying to do the best they can, Fucking up on occasion, for sure, getting somethings rights, but most, right or wrong are trying their best.

I suggest, let's leave parents out of threads, unless it is about something like the horrible abuse my daughter-in-law suffered through.