Re: Grammarian

2003-07-03 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Wed, Jul 2, 2003 at 2:48 pm -0700, Bruce Mitchell wrote: Deliberate use of 'improper' grammar is what I meant in referring to being of the Winston Churchill school; the old story of him writing a speech which a minor aide sent back with grammar corrections, to which he responded by

Re: Grammarian

2003-07-02 Thread Sid Barras
HI Bruce, I'm an English/ Creative writing university student, I use Grammarian on all documents I produce. It too, suggests some inappropriate choices, but overall, I'd call it indispensible. I do write fairly well, but it catches things like tense shift, dangling participles and other things

Re: Grammarian

2003-07-02 Thread Bruce Mitchell
Thanks Sid, for your evaluation from experience, which makes Grammarian sound worth having, as I thought perhaps it might be from the description on the website. Not that expensive if it's that much better than MS. Deliberate use of 'improper' grammar is what I meant in referring to being

Grammarian

2003-07-01 Thread Bruce Mitchell
on 7/1/03 6:43 PM, Mark Dempsey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed that. They also didn't mention Grammarian. Conflict Catcher is for OS 9, so I would guess that it wasn't as important in their minds. It's also possible that their list is just incomplete. Grammarian changed hands a few