{"id":3084,"date":"2006-09-16T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:32:34","slug":"fighting-words-grammar-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/09\/16\/fighting-words-grammar-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Word&#8217;s Grammar Checker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/Picture%204.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:left;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/200\/Picture%204.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I have quite a love-hate relationship with Word&#8217;s built-in spelling and grammar checker.  More hate than love, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m in one long marathon checking session, running through the whole 500 page manuscript.  It&#8217;s enough to turn a brain to jelly.  Look at what it found, make a decision, click.  Repeat.   It the program was a little more capable, it would be one thing, but I find myself hitting that Ignore button more often than not.  But I dare not make it a habit, because right in the middle of a run of ridiculous suggestions only software could make, up pops a legitimate typo, or an awkward sentence that must be dealt with.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s especially bad with this novel.  I have more non-standard dialect that is normal for me, and lots of chatty sentence fragments.  If there&#8217;s anything that Word hates, it&#8217;s fragments, even when they aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well.  I&#8217;ll survive.  I just hope nothing too embarrassing survives the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have quite a love-hate relationship with Word&#8217;s built-in spelling and grammar checker. More hate than love, I think. Today, I&#8217;m in one long marathon checking session, running through the whole 500 page manuscript. It&#8217;s enough to turn a brain to jelly. Look at what it found, make a decision, click. Repeat. It the program&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/09\/16\/fighting-words-grammar-checker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fighting Word&#8217;s Grammar Checker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[388,12,132,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-NK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}