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Comment by gxt

5 years ago

In Québec we have Antidote. It's a good "old" piece of software you install on your computer and it integrates with office and other programs to provide _explanations_ of why what you write, looks wrong. No keylogger, no getting dumber. It essentially let's you either learn why you're wrong or decide the software is wrong. It used to be French only but they added English too a couple years back. I have no affiliation with Antidote, I just use it everyday.

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twobitshifter  5 years ago

Another older piece of software is the Unix Writer’s Workbench, which legend says put all other grammar checkers to shame. Unfortunately it seems to have been lost to history and I am too young to have used it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer's_Workbench

  • digisign  5 years ago

    Looks like a good floss project to contribute to:

    > The GNU operating system contains free software implementations of several wwb utilities, such as spell, style and diction.[9] As of early 2019, the look utility had not yet been ported to GNU, but its implementation from 4.4BSD-Lite is available as free software, for example via Debian.

pkd  5 years ago

Thank you for this recommendation. I'll probably pick this up for French writing practice!