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kergonath 6 days ago

> People pushed back on the grammar checks when they landed in Word.

Word’s grammar checker has improved quite a lot. But I absolutely hate the style checker and its useless advice. Yes, I know how the passive voice works and yes, it is appropriate in this sentence. Also, it’s not really a problem in English but Word still can’t do spaces properly so it wants to put normal spaces everywhere and it’s fucking ugly. I wish it would spend as much time fixing inappropriate breaking spaces (in English as well).

shakna 4 days ago | parent [-]

Word's style checker trying to enforce US norms, when the Australian dictionary is in use aggravates me.

Yes, we use the Oxford comma. We teach it in our schools. Stop trying to tell me its not necessary - the audience expects it!

mrguyorama 4 days ago | parent [-]

It was just as useless here in the states:

"Sentence fragment, consider revising"

It's dialog in a story you ignorant clod.