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Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by scandox on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:39AM (#19281580)
> sets a scary president for alls voices that are other

I can't read past this kind of error. It's a typo too far for an article that is asking me to take it seriously.

Proofreading is "proof" that the author has taken care of both their language and their ideas.

Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by theNJR on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:48AM (#19281679)
Fixed. Thank you for holding me to a high standard, truly.
Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by scandox on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:07AM (#19281935)
Oh good on you. I'll carry on from that point then.
Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by scandox on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:22AM (#19282157)
Ok so while we're here:

- preveriable -> proverbial

- rediculuded -> ridiculed

- bares -> bears

- By unleashing a never-ending stream of fiction, masked a truth -> By unleashing a never-ending stream of fiction, masked as truth

Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by gambler on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:43AM (#19282471)
We have AI that supposedly can "compose" articles, but there are no open-source grammar-aware spellcheckers. I love modern technology.

And yes, this is one of the projects on my 1000-item todo list.

Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by JetSpiegel on Saturday March 02, 2019 @02:44AM (#19288126)
There is LanguageTool, but it's a Java monstrosity. You can at least bind it to localhost and it's only slow on startup, but takes 300MB of RAM just sitting there, exposing a REST API.

https://languagetool.org/

It can be integrated with Neovim, with some work.

https://github.com/neomake/neomake/pull/1838

https://github.com/neomake/neomake/issues/1728#issuecomment-...

Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by theNJR on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:51AM (#19282571)
Have you ever tried Grammarly? I see them advertise on Hulu, not sure if its any good.
Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by gambler on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:07PM (#19285274)
They send all your texts to their servers for analysis. I don't find that acceptable from privacy standpoint, even if I'm just writing publicly visible comments.
Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by theNJR on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:39AM (#19282412)
I really appreciate that. The fact that simple spellcheck catchable errors made it into the final piece is upsetting.

I need to give my editor (aka my wife) more time with the final before pushing live.

Re:Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology by DyslexicAtheist on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:03PM (#19282733)
if you're looking for spell and style checking I can recommend the hemingwayapp.com - doesn't catch everything but is pretty useful especially for non native English speakers