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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.




Fixed. Thank you for holding me to a high standard, truly.


Oh good on you. I'll carry on from that point then.


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


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.


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-...


Have you ever tried Grammarly? I see them advertise on Hulu, not sure if its any good.


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.


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.


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




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