Re: [SLE] Grammar Check for Text Editor in SUSE 9.3

From: Richard Fieldsend (r.fieldsend_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 08/24/05

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    Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:04:49 +0100 (BST)
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    --- Jie Li <lijie0210@gmail.com> wrote:

    > Dear :
    > Mike Roy <mjroy2416@rogers.com>,
    > R Fieldsend <r.fieldsend@btopenworld.com>,
    > Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>,
    >
    > I really appreciate your detailed suggestions sent
    > into my mailbox,
    > but when I reply them, I copied and plasted into
    > this maillist so that
    > leave them into public.
    >
    > I wish this isn't a problem to you guys coz your
    > replies are really
    > helpful and I hope some more ppl can read them..

    Hi Jie,
    I can't speak for Mike or Dave, but I did intend to
    reply to the list, and I should have checked before
    clicking on the send button.

    I appreciate your issue with not being able to spend
    the time on experimenting with Linux based grammar
    checking, and I hope your experience with Word isn't
    too bad. The advice about keeping the document in
    sections is very valid (wysiwyg gets very slow with
    big documents), and of course, keep backups somewhere
    other than your harddrive!

    The good thing is that its given me a mini-project to
    work on, and I've now started grammar checking all of
    the content on my own website, to see how readable it
    is (for the record I tend to write sentences that are
    too long according to readability scores, but they've
    always been like that).

    Good luck with your thesis, and I hope everything goes
    well.

    Take Care

    Richard

    ps. One person said that you should only use grammar
    books that were written in the UK as the American ones
    are just for American English, not 'proper' English.
    The only exception I'd make for that rule is the
    'Strunk and White - Elements Of Style' book, which is
    tiny and packed with really useful information. 

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