taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (05/03/90)
Linda Ireland at ac.dal.ca writes: > I have a roomate for whom English is a second language. She will have to > start writing a master's thesis soon and is thinking about buying a Mac > to do the word processing.. I just got through digging through some of the recent back issues of MacWEEK and Macintosh News, and, alas, I can't find the reference in my head, but there is a product just announced that is designed specifically as a grammer checker for people whom Spanish is their native tongue and English is a second language. Unfortunately, all I can do is tell you that it exists. Can someone else out there in netland come up with a specific reference? I'm pretty sure that the article was in either MacWEEK, Mac News, or Mac User in the past three weeks... Sorry I can't be more help! -- Dave Taylor Intuitive Systems Mountain View, California taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor
FlashsMom@cup.portal.com (NancyAnn none Sheridan) (05/05/90)
That may be the only use for them. From their advertisements and documentation, Grammatik & Sensible Grammar look worse than useless for competent speakers of English. I ordered Correct Grammar, and a lot of good skull-sweat went into it, but it's of no practical use. Some of its suggestions are intelligently wrong; none has been better than what I'd written. It has some severe functional misfeatures, which the president of the company says they'll fix in the next release, and it has Working Software's standard file-corruption problem [as in Spellswell]. --- Reply-To: Flash@Dcjcon.Das.Net