grammar checker in Mac OS X 10.6 could use some work
I have the latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard (10.6). Its system-wide grammar checker is a nice touch.However, I find it not nearly as good yet as the one that has been in Microsoft Word for over a decade. I am puzzled that the one in OS X does not recognize very common, simple sentence structures. I am not complaining too much, though. It pointed out a mistake I made in this short post.
The system-wide spelling checker on the Mac, on the other hand, is extremely nice. I hope the grammar checker catches up soon. It is a harder thing to do, but not that hard. Parsers and dictionaries have been around for ages.
Speaking of which, if you ever want an extremely complete and extremely intelligent dictionary for some program, take a look at WordNet - it is amazing.
posted by John Collins @ 6:31 AM
