FYI, seems to work perfectly find in Safari on Mac OS X Desktop.
Proselint
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Re: Proselint
#72This sounds promising, but I think a lot of potential users would be deterred by the lack of examples. This positively screams for a online interface to test drive.
http://proselint.com/write/
Are you claiming you can paste in your own copy, and it will run against it? I see no text area in Chrome or Safari, what am I missing?
Re: Proselint
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://proselint.com/write/
Are you claiming you can paste in your own copy, and it will run against it? I see no text area in Chrome or Safari, what am I missing?
You're missing a stupid CSS trick; apparently everything should be flat flat flat nowadays, even if that means throwing UX out of the window. The sample text is editable, even though it looks as if it's not.
Re: Proselint
#75Very interesting, and I'm looking into integrating it to http://WritingOutliner.com (or as a separate Word addin) :)
Re: Proselint
#76Here's a suggestion... Have copy on web site be intentionally incorrect, red-underlined with (small modals? tooltips?) that show what's been corrected/suggested by the tool.
Like http://proselint.com/write/ ? ... which is also editable
Re: Proselint
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people feel you should never ever say things like "more unique", "most unique" etc Which I think is equally as misguided as trying to force "data" to be plural, and that "less than 3" is wrong
In a mathematical context, something is either "unique" or it is not. There is no in-between state. But you can easily define it to mean something else. And you can even make "uniqueness" comparable.
Curiously (but perhaps only to me) all things are comparable - able to be compared.
If you mean similar, may I commend the word similar? ;-)
Re: Proselint
#78Thank you for working on this project and sharing it.
One of the more challenging sections in the GMAT entails sentence correction. A proselint-enabled GMAT prep for sentence correction would be very valuable.
Re: Proselint
#79Most important question - How many linguists are on the team developing this?
Re: Proselint
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people feel you should never ever say things like "more unique", "most unique" etc Which I think is equally as misguided as trying to force "data" to be plural, and that "less than 3" is wrong
In a mathematical context, something is either "unique" or it is not. There is no in-between state. But you can easily define it to mean something else. And you can even make "uniqueness" comparable.
In a mathematical world you operate with abstract objects. In the real word - you need to abstract things; before that everything is unique; after that - well, depends on your abstraction. So unless you talk about mathematics, things can be more or less unique.