Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-21 Thread Kumara Bhikkhu
Apology fully accepted, Jan. Besides, like I said, it's not quite your fault. It just triggered an issue that I still have. Would be nice if you rewrite when you hesitate though. Anyway, I think we can never fully agree on how LT should be. Democracy would be problematic. So, I think it's bette

Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-21 Thread Jan Schreiber
Many, many thanks to everyone who took part in the discussion. My main concern when I wrote the mail was that my ideas were totally vague and would just upset some people for no real purpose. That is why I hesitated before clicking the send button. I think I did upset Kumara, and I apologize. I ha

Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-20 Thread Daniel Naber
On 2014-05-19 16:16, Juan Martorell wrote: > Therefore my suggestion is that we discuss KPI in terms of performance > and maintainability rather than in "bring rules to LT" and we set some > goals. I remember there was a nice simplification effort some time > ago. The more rules you have, the mor

Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread R.J. Baars
Would it be possible to: - add a level of 'checking profiles' - that have the familiar categories - the categories just contain rule(set) id's (file_name+rule_id) - the rule-id's are stored in a number of rule files Of all profiles, just 1 can be active for the active language. This makes it pre-

Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread Kumara Bhikkhu
Juan Martorell wrote thus at 10:16 PM 19-05-14: I think I see your point, and I gave a lot of thinking to it. A grammar checker (or proofreader, as we call it in our web page) can perform many tasks and there are some tasks that are virtually impossible to accomplish. Depending on the user, we

Re: Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread Juan Martorell
On 19 May 2014 13:40, Jan Schreiber wrote: > Marcin wrote: > > This is perfect English and you could probably find Jane Austin or > > Charles Dickens using such constructions. > > I think this little discussion reveals a fundamental problem of an Open > Source grammar checker, and perhaps of gram

Some thoughts on grammar Nazis, LanguageTool, and the world in itself

2014-05-19 Thread Jan Schreiber
Marcin wrote: > This is perfect English and you could probably find Jane Austin or > Charles Dickens using such constructions. I think this little discussion reveals a fundamental problem of an Open Source grammar checker, and perhaps of grammar checkers in general. In the back of my head, I've t