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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (4.5) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.5) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: |  (4.0) |
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Don't Even Bother Using with Snow Leopard - Version: 1.8.6b2, 10/9/2009 09:35PM PST
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Mackidockie
As I've said before, Grammarian has saved my bacon more times than I care to remember, but it's always been cranky. As the dictionary says, "A badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)." Getting it to work with Snow Leopard is painful. Crashes galore and erratic behavior. Let's see whether the developer can pull this back from the abyss with a new version.
Tons More Rules, But Still Fairly Stupid - Version: 1.8.3, 1/11/2009 06:14PM PST
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epresley
For the slang word "gonna" it suggested this to help correct the error:
"i before e except after c or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh."
It does offer up some good suggestions, but just like Word and most other checkers, it's still too stupid to understand what it is you're doing and will still suggest you do things that are just blatantly incorrect. You still need a grasp of grammar and usage so that you don't make ridiculous mistakes based on what it thinks it's found. Thus, it throws every rule that I don't know in doubt when it suggests them, because if it's wrong about that, is wrong about this too? It did find some things that surprised me I over looked so bonus points there, but it's very slow, you constantly get the beach ball of death waiting on it and in the newest Word for Mac, it doesn't actually correct the text, I have to make the changes by hand as I follow it along... so what's the point?
"i before e except after c or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh."
It does offer up some good suggestions, but just like Word and most other checkers, it's still too stupid to understand what it is you're doing and will still suggest you do things that are just blatantly incorrect. You still need a grasp of grammar and usage so that you don't make ridiculous mistakes based on what it thinks it's found. Thus, it throws every rule that I don't know in doubt when it suggests them, because if it's wrong about that, is wrong about this too? It did find some things that surprised me I over looked so bonus points there, but it's very slow, you constantly get the beach ball of death waiting on it and in the newest Word for Mac, it doesn't actually correct the text, I have to make the changes by hand as I follow it along... so what's the point?
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The Best - Version: 1.8.3, 11/9/2008 07:16AM PST
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Rogue Crew
Grammarian Pro X is the best spelling and grammar checker available, bar none.
