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Re:Nitpicker – an overly picky language style checker by bbromhead on Sunday June 16, 2013 @02:11AM (#5887637)
Great idea although it doesn't appear to pick up the misuse of there, their and they're.

I typed "I'm going to walk over their" and Nitpicker only told me that " I'm " is an informal contraction.

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Re:Nitpicker – an overly picky language style checker by ampersandy on Sunday June 16, 2013 @02:57AM (#5887724)
Overly picky, at the cost of comprehensiveness I would assume. :)

I might enjoy using this service if it was offered as a browser extension, since I find myself regularly proofing my writing to eradicate the informal language that I tend to use in my first drafts.

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