From: sasha1@netcom.com (Alexander Chislenko)
I ran my essays through Word grammar checker a while ago, and was surprised how stable the grammar statistics were. Complexity of the text (grade level) was the same to the decimal point, average length of sentences was consistent, etc. People also use the same styles of smileys or *highlights*, make consistent spelling errors, have their habits of indentation, etc.
I'd like suggestions from people on what style/grammar checker is best for reducing this kind of interpersonal variablity (and increasing the intrapersonal variety by only using it sometimes). I use Grammatik 5 on some posts, and it does seem to help.
My suggestion at the time was to have randomizing output filter that would substitute synonyms, change spelling, modify paragraph formatting, etc. - Style anonymizer, I'd call it. Also, if small random changes are
At least for the synonyms, I'd hope that a good grammar checker was seeing if you weren't using a very large vocabulary. That's one problem I have with Grammatik 5, in that it doesn't do this very well. -Allen