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Why you shouldn't trust grammar checkers...
May 03, 2014 21:17
Word is insisting that I change 'X came to slowly' to 'X came too slowly'.
Which really changes the meaning quite substantially...
words
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aaargh!
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it's funny because it's true
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reverancepavane
May 4 2014, 07:29:06 UTC
Actually as a grammar checker it worked to detect a poor usage of language and the fix was the simplest correction possible. Then again, the beauty of English is in its exceptions rather than its rules.
More effort required by Y, I say!
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ext_613468
May 15 2014, 09:33:11 UTC
Shouldn't it be "X came to, slowly."
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angharad_gam
May 18 2014, 11:48:32 UTC
Quite possibly. Commas and I don't really get on...
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More effort required by Y, I say!
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