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Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

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645 points ReadCarlBarks | 3 comments | 20 Jun 25 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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icapybara ◴[20 Jun 25 23:54 UTC] No.44333232[source]▶
Why wouldn't you want an LLM for a language learning tool? Language is one of things I would trust an LLM completely on. Have you ever seen ChatGPT make an English mistake?
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healsdata ◴[21 Jun 25 00:36 UTC] No.44333473[source]▶
Grammarly is all in on AI and recently started recommended splitting "wasn't" and added the contraction to the word it modified. Example: "truly wasn't" becomes "was trulyn't"

https://imgur.com/a/RQZ2wXA

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1. o11c ◴[21 Jun 25 01:33 UTC] No.44333762[source]▶
Hm ... I wonder, is Grammarly also responsible for the flood of contraction of lexical "have" the last few years? It's standard in British English, but outside of poetry it is proscribed in almost all other dialects (which only permit contraction of auxiliary "have").

Even in British I'm not sure how widely they actually use it - do they say "I've a car" and "I haven't a car"?

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2. filterfish ◴[21 Jun 25 02:32 UTC] No.44334033[source]▶
"they" say "I haven't got a car".

Contractions are common in Australian English to, though becoming less so due to the influence of US English.

3. NoboruWataya ◴[21 Jun 25 09:12 UTC] No.44335966[source]▶
In my experience "I've a car" is much more common than "I haven't a car" (I've never heard the latter construct used, but regularly hear the former in casual speech). "I haven't got a car" or "I've no car" would be relatively common though.