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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Oh great. We're going to have Mick arbitrate grammar rules, I just know it. All of us stupid "Mercans" are f***ed.
Absolutely spot on.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It wouldn't take me an hour to write a "Reject" button that sends an e-mail saying "Clean up your language use, or it won't be published".
Attempts to automate language corrections normally end up creating as many problems as they solve (e.g. how many amongst us have ever used "i" as a loop-control variable or a tag to indicate italicisation?)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If it were easy it wouldn't be a challenge.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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There's a bit of a killer crevasse between "challenge" and "life's work".
Human languages are just too damned complicated to handle with a computer without, at the very least, a several-year-old backprop routine.
You just can't treat correcting English like correcting a humongously simpler computer language.
Lookit:
With a good writer:
-- If your amendment is correct/appropriate, his response will be "Thanks!", because no-one understands snow-blindness better than an experienced writer.
-- If your amendment is incorrect/inappropriate, he probably won't say anything, but he'll take his work elsewhere, next time.
With a poor writer:
-- If your amendment is correct/appropriate, you'll at best get a "humph!" in reply.
-- If your amendment is incorrect/inappropriate, it'll escalate to a screaming fit before you can type a greengrocers' apostrophe.
Here be monsters, eh? The easiest person to turn into an enemy is the one who's not entirely sure what he's doing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You firing it up onto Github or something?
If so, I'll definitely throw a few hours at it 
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Is it just me or is this just a semi-respectable way of getting us to do your work? 
"Gee Huck, Gee Becky... whitewashing this fence sure is fun!"
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Is it just me or is this just a semi-respectable way of getting us to do your work?
Jeremy Falcon
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Let's just remove the "semi-respectable" and be done with it, eh?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The grammar Nazi in me would make it a three-strike rule.
And if you write "urgentz", the account gets suspended for a day. :-p
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If you write "urgentz", we nuke your house from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Software Zen: delete this;
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So "gimme code plz" will be auto-corrected to "Give me code please"?
That will be an improvement 
Seriously though, I wonder how much can really be corrected? Such a library has to be very 'smart' to fix some of the stuff I read on CP (luckily there's more good than bad though!).
If someone doesn't value grammar can they form correct sentences? im sure this sentence couldve been fixed. but this sentense may it can be fixed, srry for my bad english?
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I was thinking we start simple.
"i have a problem. can someone help me?" goes to "I have a problem. Can someone help me?".
We then look to see common issues and do some simple stuff. cant => can't, Sql => SQL.
Treading softly. Keeping it simple.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's my wont to cant my monitor to the left.
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I'm not going to make a full submission; but want to suggest that anyone serious about it be sure to implement this family of fixes (only one example given because I'm a slacker):
str.replace("I have got", "I've <b>GOTTEN</b>");
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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May the wrath of Bob descend on thee.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'd personally put it in the 'too hard' basket - just because the complexity blows my mind.
But I applaud the idea - bad grammar is something up with which I will not put.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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But who will determine which version is correct? Some Brits and convicts, or people who write and speak English? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: ...or people who write and speak English?
So that is all of North America f***ed then
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
modified 19-Aug-14 4:33am.
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yes!! it sounds like an interesting javascript code is to be developed
Would love to participate in such a contest!
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Why JavaScript? Are you wanting to plug it into this text editor we type in? I did a quick search and such libraries already exist, though they probably don't get into punctuation.
English punctuation is complex and sometimes inconsistent, coming up with the logic would be tougher than the programming. Think about how you would design an algorithm to determine whether or not "its" or "it's" is correct in a given sentence, you're probably going to need to build trees of sentence diagrams and I got enough of that in the fifth grade. Plural possessives are even worse, and speaking of plurals you're in a world of hurt with things like "attorneys general." I'll consider it but I'm not sure I'm up for that.
Can't you just find some desperate English major to "intern" and proof everything for free leftover pizza?
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So as I'm reading this up pops an ad offering to help me "Check your arrest record".
I would think that we "smartest and brightest" would know if we had been arrested
On the topic, I feel there's little need. The typos etc. sort of add character and are more representative of what we actually type all day long {var foo} etc.
Also, many of our brethren are not native English speakers. Perhaps correcting their grammar might change the meaning of their posts. For instance...
As a American, I often find the "Queen's" English somewhat confusing. I will never forget a lecture on computing I gave in England back in the 80's. The audience began tittering when I used the word "backslash". The tittering increased to the point that I had to stop the lecture and ask what was so amusing. It seems the word "slash" was slang for urinating outdoors. Who knew?
I (stupidly) asked for their word to describe the character and, after some discussion, it was decided I should use "reverse oblique stroke".
So, despite your probably justifiable (my son is an editor and takes great offense when he encounters similar wrongs) editorial umbrage at poor grammar, malapropisms and the like, I think you should keep them.
Murray
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dg6yhw11 wrote: So as I'm reading this up pops an ad offering to help me "Check your arrest record".
Can you please click the "X" on the top left and report it? If no "X" appears please get a copy of the click through URL and email us at webmaster@codeproject.com and we'll block that ad.
Back on topic: Again, my goal is a simple, basic remedy for the worst offenses only.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Back on topic: Again, my goal is a simple, basic remedy for the worst offenses only.
Oh, well that's easy:
if(submission.Contains("plz"))
{
File.Move(Server.MapPath("/submission.txt"), Server.MapPath("/dev/null/reject.txt"));
}
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Thanks for the reply Chris.
That ad hasn't reappeared thankfully.
Returning to the topic, the devil remains in the definition of "worst offense".
Personally, I'm not at all offended by typos and the "trim doubles and vowels" type of abbreviations. (I'm not even offended by Comic Sans which professional editors seem to find really bad  )
Enjoy.
Murray.
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