PEP 686: Grammar fixes

[methane]

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[hugovk]

I'm very wary of Grammarly, it can make writing worse:

• chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/08/01/these-cards-always-lie
• economist.com/johnson/2012/08/01/automated-grammar-checking
• economist.com/johnson/2012/08/07/grammarly-revisited
• the-digital-reader.com/2017/05/04/im-breaking-grammarly
• slate.com/technology/2018/02/grammarly-wont-make-your-writing-better.html

And a number of these changes are plain wrong.

[hugovk]

A few suggestions. Some of these undo Grammarly, some are new :)

[CAM-Gerlach]

Considering its tremendous marketing hype, while I was naturally very skeptical and didn't expect much, it still managed to be rather disappointing. It only catches a fraction of obvious, unambiguous grammar errors, never mind more complex issues; in some cases, the fix doesn't actually improve things, and in others, it changed perfectly valid (and even good-quality) sentences into ones with objective grammar errors. In all, the net result is only a marginal improvement

If you want to automatically fix the various grammar issues with this PEP, I'd suggest turning to CAMmerly instead, which uses a deep learning, neural network-trained copyediting engine tuned specifically on PEPs, all available for free to any PEP author on request—no need to pay for premium service.

[Rosuav]

If you want to automatically fix the various grammar issues with this PEP, I'd suggest turning to CAMmerly instead, which uses a deep learning, neural network-trained copyediting engine tuned specifically on PEPs, all available for free to any PEP author on request—no need to pay for premium service.

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/2173/