Ask HN: What do you use for spell and grammar checking?

Posted by bjourne on Saturday May 03, 2025 @10:59AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've tried Emacs's various spell-checking modes, but they are bad. They are all based around dictionary lookups so not very useful for agglutinative languages. Nor do they work with text containing markup or text containing multiple languages (e.g., English cites, but text in a different language). I don't think neovim fares much better.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for spell and grammar checking? by pwinkeler on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:15AM (#43879614)

Reading. I find that reading a lot, especially one's own writing, helps :-) Also, I would suggest that every student take a few years of Latin, Greek and at least one foreign language from middle school on. That foreign language should be one that stems from a different root than one's own.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for spell and grammar checking? by fuzzfactor on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:23AM (#43879667)

I prefer natural intelligence, but if I have any doubts I'll look something up on the internet which I do occasionally.

Not for grammar, just spelling if I get a wild hair.

Then again my standards are low, I speak zero languages fluently ;)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for spell and grammar checking? by sneha_tamal on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:02AM (#43879503)

I mostly rely on grammarly for english, but yeah, it struggles with mixed-language content.

Have you tried using it?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for spell and grammar checking? by allears on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:22AM (#43879658)

I don't use any of that stuff, but then again I'm an old guy who was well taught back when our public schools were a lot more functional. And English was my first language.

If I tried to write in some other language, I would need every electronic aid available...

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for spell and grammar checking? by lananovikova on Thursday May 15, 2025 @05:39PM (#43999579)

Grazie Pro plugin for IDE which is now also provided along with the JetBrains AI subscription https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16136-grazie-pro and it also has a browser extension

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