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Unless things have changed in the past 6-9 months, not many educated people are writing it either.
We have someone who runs press releases through it before distribution to catch errors and it actually suggests changes that make the grammar worse! Best case it entirely misses blatant errors. In the end we hired a proof reader with a brain. 
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RJOberg wrote: it actually suggests changes that make the grammar worse!
I believe it. I've had it do it to me as well. Of course I assumed I must be wrong because I don't pretend to be a grammar genius. That is funny you saw that as well. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I feel like developing spelling/grammar checks are two tasks that should never be outsourced. All localization should be handled by a team of native speakers lead by a primary school teacher of said language.
Preferably one who isn't afraid to use a ruler like a Catholic school nun. 
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I've just written an Android app to solve a UX problem. (I use the term UX because it is cool and current and gets me instant points as someone in-the-know.)
My app :
1. retrieves your incoming SMS message
2. determine who it is from via your contact list
3. says, "Incoming from <name from="" contact="">" (Text To Speech)
4. reads your SMS message aloud to you (uses TTS - TextToSpeech).
I'm very happy with it because I often send my wife a message as I go out the door from work:
"On my way".
Her response usually takes a bit and I am very disciplined about not looking at my phone at all while driving (which makes me a freak of nature).
She often sends me a quick text, "Hey could you pick up [grocery item] on the way home?"
I never see it.
Now, my app reads the message aloud to me. It works better than I hoped really.
iOS : Super Secure
iOS does not provide an API to get the incoming SMS text body so you cannot do this.
Wow, this seems like an app whose time has come and yet you really can't do this.
This seems to be for security reasons.
I understand that apps can hijack all this stuff, but on Android you have to allow the permission and my app will tell you (upon installation) that it can RECEIVE_SMS.
Technology ain't all it's cracked up to be, ok? I mean the robots are supposed to be taking over and I can't even get my freaking iPhone to read my SMS messages to me. Lame-oh!!!
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Get an Android phone!
And write an article on the App - could be interesting!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I do have an android phone and I will go ahead and write up the article here soon.
The rest of my family have iPhones and I was going to write the app for them but no such luck.
The Android code is quite simple, actually.
Thanks for the interest. I'l try to get it written up soon.
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OriginalGriff wrote: write an article on the App
Seconded.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks for your interest.
Because a few people have mentioned that it sounds interesting I've fired up the article editor and attempting the first pass. 
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raddevus wrote: I can't even get my freaking iPhone to read my SMS messages to me. Lame-oh!!!
Errr... iOS can already do this via Siri. 
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Oh. I didn't know Siri would do that for you.
How do you set that up? Is it difficult?
I have developed apps for iOS but don't have an iPhone.
I'm cheap. I have droid phones.
EDIT
I googled:
Google[^]
Do you mean that first solution?
That's not great, because it basically reads the screen you are on, not the messages as they come in.
That would still be dangerous if you are driving.
I just turn my feature on in my app before getting in car and any incoming messages are read to me.
(As they arrive in real-time they are each read to me.)
modified 24-Apr-17 14:49pm.
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Easy Peasy.
Allow normal notifications on incoming messages.
In "Settings" activate "Siri", "Access When Locked" and "Allow 'Hey Siri".
When notification arrives, if you want it read say "Hey Siri, read my unread messages". You can even reply via Siri by speaking your reply.
raddevus wrote: I have developed apps for iOS but don't have an iPhone.
I'm cheap. I have droid phones.
Fair enough... but why write:
raddevus wrote: I can't even get my freaking iPhone to read my SMS messages to me.
???
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Can I filter this by contact, so that it'll read some but not all?
Jeremy Falcon
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I usually glance down to my phone (sitting in my cup holder) and only ask Siri to recite if I'm interested (usually based on who sent it).
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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That's interesting and sounds like it might work ok with Siri.
Mike Mullikin wrote: Fair enough... but why write:
It was a bit of subjunctive mood[^]. 
Thinking as if I had an iphone and wishing it worked the way I wanted it to. 
Plus, I was too lazy to explain the backstory.
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Just came across this in the news this morning..
Siri can now read your WhatsApp messages out loud on iOS - The Verge
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Interesting. I wonder if it reads them as they arrive. I'll check it out.
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Nice job man. Would also be cool if you could toggle it on or off quickly. Say like a work mode, that won't automatically read something out loud that may be a bit more racy.
Jeremy Falcon
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Thanks.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Say like a work mode, that won't automatically read something out loud
You are definitely right.
Just while testing my phone was speaking and people in cubicles around me were asking what was going on.
Actually, I've been adding the code to make it an Android Widget also.
That way you can add it to your lock screen and you can enable / disable it easily.
However, Android Widget API is brittle and is not easy to use.
Hopefully I'll get an article written up here soon about it.
Thanks for your interest.
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Sounds like it'll be a fantastic article man.
Jeremy Falcon
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Maybe tie it to the system sound setting? E.g. If your phone is muted it won't read and you'll need to enable it manually, maybe with the ability to set a time until it resyncs with the system sound volume?
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The text to speech voice volume can be set somewhat independently from other sounds. I'm writing the basic article up now and we will discuss these options more.
Thanks for the input.
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