Friday, January 10, 2014

Style quirks 2

I've come up with about 70 categories of style quirks. This is too many to display in a long list. Instead, I created a div that displays a little text on a colored background. I put these in a compact table similar to the Elements search. The count or percent are displayed under each icon. Non-matching categories have greyed out icons.









Some things to remember


The expressions that identify misused words like "lose", "loose", "its", it's" don't catch all instances. They will also incorrectly report misuse for some word. If a dreamer consistently uses one of these words incorrectly the number of matches make this obvious.

For these misused words results are reported as a % of all correct and incorrect matches.

For "to!" that is 100 * "to!" count/ "to" count.

For things like past and present tense results are a percent of all words.

For rarely matching categories I just report the count. I usually just want to know if the feature is present or not.

Some grammar rules are questionable: split infinitives, end a sentence with a preposition. For these "fussy" categories the icons are purple. Some rule are misapplied by writers who are afraid of being wrong. A few of the search categories could be called hyper-corrections.

The spelling expression is just a list of about 100 commonly misspelled words.

Non-english is a short list of European language function words. Most sets will have a few matches. Same for latin and yiddish.

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