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I want to ask, since I'm a frequent reader of ZnT, I sometimes copy the text into a Word file, and most of the time, I get many grammatical errors. I want to ask if I could edit them?
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chrono732 wrote:I want to ask, since I'm a frequent reader of ZnT, I sometimes copy the text into a Word file, and most of the time, I get many grammatical errors. I want to ask if I could edit them?
I don't see the priblem here. Though many are proper nouns or such.
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well just to note that it happens to me a lot when im making the PDFs but somehow most of the time the words are right, dunno why word mark them.

as for sentences mistakes (green underline) happens a lot more than anything else xD but the sentence makes sense, since english is not my first language i cant tell so you might want to ask if there's really a mistake there before changing it
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It goes without saying that Word's grammar checking is procedural, and pays absolutely no attention to context. Add in the fact that English grammar doesn't make any sense (semi-colon anyone?), and you have lots of green lines in a perfectly good document. Not that I'm saying there aren't any errors (grammar aside, there are quite a few awkwardly phrased lines), just that the rate of false positives is high.
In any case, I'm pretty sure the answer is "have at it." It's a wiki after all. Just make sure you're actually making "corrections" and not just "changes."
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Yes helping with corrections is a good thing. Like others have said it is a wiki after all. :D
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