Is it already in Atom or Sublime Text?
EDIT: I must be blind - they say about ST plugin (although they don't link to it). https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-contrib-pro...
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#82Is it already in Atom or Sublime Text? EDIT: I must be blind - they say about ST plugin (although they don't link to it). https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-contrib-pro...
"There’s a plugin for Sublime Text."
Didn't see anything about Atom though.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's out of scope for now, but only because we don't have any native speakers of other languages helping us out with the project, and this stuff is hard enough to get write in your native tongue; otherwise it's on the table. Interested?
> this stuff is hard enough to get write in your native tongue Was that deliberate?
"get write" is an error proselint could easily catch.
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#84What is wrong with "very smart"? (line 86)
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#85Nice idea. Bug report — it told me I had too many exclamation marks in a Markdown file with a number of images in it.
Sounds like a feature request ("recognize and support markdown").
Open an issue at https://github.com/amperser/proselint/issues/new
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#86What is wrong with "very smart"? (line 86)
"avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do." - Dead Poets Society
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#87The main problem with a tool like this it that it needs to understand sentence structure in order to find a lot of common anti-patterns. Without some natural language processing, it's just going to be able to scan for word usage and simple things that you can catch with a regex. You could probably build something a lot more sophisticated on top of something like Apple's NSLinguisticTagger and related APIs. After tes…
You're right, but the problem is much worse than that. Examining 200 entries from Garner's Modern American Usage at random reveals that half of them are easy to implement, the kind of thing that could be assigned as a homework problem (e.g., recognizing that “$10 USD” is redundant, that “very unique” is comparing an uncomparable adjective, or that people from Michigan are called “Michiganders”, not “Michiganites”). T…
> recognizing that “$10 USD” is redundant
People in Australia might disagree. As might people in Bermuda, Colombia, Canada, Hong Kong, Argentina, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar#Other_national_currenci...
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#88Looks really interesting. I'd done some preliminary investigation into whether this kind of concept might work for the style guide at my company, but I never got time to take it further.
Is there any word on business model / the intentions of the developers? Is it something that's being open sourced and then integration assistance would be commercialised?
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#89Microsoft Word had something like this round about 1999
Yeah, there's the squiggly line; same thing, right?
Similarly, where Tesla Model S is concerned: Ford Motor Company had something like this round about 1908. (Where "something like this" is "has four wheels and no horses")
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Furthering the complexity of this topic... While "$10 USD" may be redundant in a newspaper published in the USA, it's immensely useful and arguably preferable when writing blog posts, emails and other text destined for the "World Wide" Web. While USD is commonly used as and many are comfortable with its use as a "common denominator" when pricing something on the Internet, it's still very important to be clear "what d…
If you are going to specify a currency, write USD 10 (though spoken, it's 10 USD). If the context is explicitly local (such as a local newspaper, menu), then $10 is sufficient in the United States.
I used to do "10 USD" or "USD 10" until I got sick of hearing responses like
"USD 10 looks weird, why did you do that', or 'that on the pricing page looks funny, can you fix it up a bit'
It seems $ (or the equivalent currency symbol for other currencies) has a place in many peoples minds implying that the number it is next to is currency, and they seem to find it weird when things involving currency are 'written correctly' without the symbol that the numbers mean currency.