MULTILINGUAL WORD PROCESSING WITH ALKI LANGUAGE PROOFING TOOLS

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MULTILINGUAL WORD PROCESSING WITH ALKI LANGUAGE PROOFING TOOLS

First, open Microsoft Word:

In Word, click on TOOLS:

In Tools, select your Language:

Choose Standard for French, German...:

But Traditional for Spanish:

For Russian, change the keyboard from English to Russian:

Then, in TOOLS select Russian:

Under Tools - Options select appropriate writing style:

Error correction begins as soon as you start typing.

First the correction of the noun:

Then the accent omission error:

Now for the grammar correction :

Note correction of all Gender/Number agreement errors:

Gender/Number agreement error correction completed.

Et voilà pour la bonne phrase SIMPLE!

Now, let’s try a sentence with two different subjects:

First an accent correction:

Then a mistaken suggested attribute spelling correction!

...which you must detect and manually correct!

The two different subjects are not recognized! Why?

With your QUE the main subject- verb agreement error is detected:

The subject- verb subordinate clause error is noted but without correction

But if you use an incorrect verb mood what happens?.

Finally, with the benefit of your intellectual input:

LANGUAGE PROOFING TOOLS CAN BE A WONDERFUL HELP BUT...

Author: Janice B. Paulsen
Multimedia Language Lab Interim Director

Email: jpaulsen@richmond.edu

Home Page: http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/home.html

MMLLAB Home Page: http://www.richmond.edu/~lang/

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