Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly

Post by SiempreViernes » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 8:53 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #140

naniwaduni wrote: post #128

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The kind of organization that identifies as an "international organization" is disproportionately likely to be hyperaware of its working language choice and standardize on a particular English dialect by policy and pick en-gb. Without such a conscious choice, yes, Americanisms do seem a fair bit more globally pervasive and easy to fall into "by accident".

I'm assuming we're talking NGOs here, because if we expand "organization" to include for-profit entities, then I'd argue vast majority of them will not just be US-English speaking, but US-originating and US-headquatered . > Without such a conscious choice, yes, Americanisms do seem a fair bit more globally pervasive and easy to fall into "by accident". You'd need choice and enforcement - unless such organization is t…

Post by itslennysfault » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 9:32 PM UTC

koiueo wrote: post #98

gardnr wrote: post #34

You can use a local instance of LanguageTool in a docker container for this: https://github.com/gardner/LocalLanguageTool

Gosh people love complicating things. You don't need docker (a Linux-only piece of tech) to run a java application. Even though I'm on Linux, and docker experience is waaaaay better here than on any other platform, I wouldn't in my life consider using it to run LanguageTool. java -cp languagetool-server.jar org.languagetool.server.HTTPServer

  git clone git@github.com:gardner/LocalLanguageTool.git

  cd LocalLanguageTool

  docker compose up

Post by patrakov » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 9:38 PM UTC

speckx wrote: post #191

patrakov wrote: post #14

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Harper is so basic that I can't recommend it. Does not catch a singular/plural discrepancy between the subject and the verb in a sentence--a common mistake when the expressed thought applies equally to one thing or to many things. Does not catch a missed indefinite article--a common mistake for speakers of languages that don't have articles. Similarly, does not catch the use of the indefinite article for a thing alre…

Open ticket about "don;t" typo, see https://github.com/Automattic/harper/issues/1559

Post by rubslopes » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 12:26 AM UTC

jasekt wrote: post #33

Wonderful! I've given it a go, works in Apple's Notes app, but it does not seem to trigger suggestions in Chrome, Firefox or Slack. It does however highlight misspellings there. Any idea what can I do to enable suggestions there? I was looking for a product like this.

Post by naniwaduni » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 7:54 AM UTC

smcleod wrote: post #114

larnon wrote: post #54

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He is actually correct. I am neither American nor English.

That's certainly not the case in the majority of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, East Africa, West Africa, South Africa, PNG, Fiji, Philippines, South Asia and South East Asia. Really it's mostly just America and Canada that use American. I could cite many sources but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_s... provides a simple view.