Wanted: Sexy/Pervy (Yankee) Grammar and Spelling Checker

[desertslave]

I'm seriously getting tired of being told that "Oh, fuck, yes!" is not a grammatically correct sentence.

What does one do when doing one isn't the point?

Generally, I have a very deep and serious grammar fetish. Unfortunately, some of my characters don't, and I have to allow them to be gen-u-wine locals when the need arises. It just insults me to see those snarky green or red lines rolling their eyes at me. I meant to do that!

 

[Boxlicker101]

It's ungrammatical in narrative, but perfectly alright in dialogue, depending on who is speaking. My GrammarCheck is always telling me dumb things but, once in a while it does catch something, so I keep it around.

 

[Harry Leg]

I'm seriously getting tired of being told that "Oh, fuck, yes!" is not a grammatically correct sentence.

What does one do when doing one isn't the point?

Generally, I have a very deep and serious grammar fetish. Unfortunately, some of my characters don't, and I have to allow them to be gen-u-wine locals when the need arises. It just insults me to see those snarky green or red lines rolling their eyes at me. I meant to do that!

Spellcheckers can be trained. It just takes some patience.

 

[TxRad]

Spellcheckers can be trained. It just takes some patience.

Yeah but where do you get those little spellchecker treats to reward it?

Anyway, my spellchecker and grammar checker both speak Texan so I'm screwed going and coming.

 

[EdwardMidweston]

It's ungrammatical in narrative, but perfectly alright in dialogue, depending on who is speaking. My GrammarCheck is always telling me dumb things but, once in a while it does catch something, so I keep it around.

Precisely! Fiction is not a doctoral dissertation.

John Updike once said, "If your dockworkers' speech is identical to your Harvard professors' speech, you're doing something wrong."

 

[sr71plt]

It's ungrammatical in narrative, but perfectly alright in dialogue, depending on who is speaking. My GrammarCheck is always telling me dumb things but, once in a while it does catch something, so I keep it around.

Agree with this. I never use grammar checker because it's totally irrelevant to fiction. Spellchecker I use constantly, though--not because I'm going to accept everything it advises, but because it does make me recheck questionable word spellings--and often is pointing to a problem if not giving the solution--and it will catch jammed-together words, failure to cap the first word in the sentence, and the lack of consistency in spelling of character and place names.

The next-to-last thing I do before sending a story anywhere is to spellcheck it. The last thing is to do a "find" search on quote marks. I have a bad habit of omitting quote marks at the end of dialogue and not seeing that in review.