Help! I dont rite so good.

It seems that the internet has been struck with a plague. This plague is poor grammar and badly misspelled words. People are bringing down the general IQ of the internet so quickly, the internet will soon be somewhere in the intelligence range of Sponge Bob Squarepants.  You know those people I’m talking about. There speling is wers then teh “eet mor chiken” kows. Well I stumbled across something on the internet that might solve all of our problems. It’s a free web-based software that corrects spelling and grammar mistakes as you type. It’s called Ginger. It’s completely free and it works like a dream.

I know what you may be thinking. MS Office already has that. “Why should I download some fancy new software?” Well, here’s the kicker. This software is about 5 times smarter than MS Office spellchecker. This Ginger Software understands contextual spelling. It doesn’t just check individual words for misspellings. It looks at whole sentences and uses the context to correct mistakes that a normal spellchecker would not see. Take these sentences for example.

I stepped in a rock with my bear foot.

It hurted.

A normal spellchecker would not find any errors in the first sentence. These are properly spelled words. In the second sentence, a normal spellcheck would see the word as misspelled but give suggestions that do not fit the context. The suggestions are hunted, hurtled, hurled, etc. Ginger takes context into consideration and properly corrects these sentences.

I stepped on a rock with my bare foot. It hurt.

Pretty neat huh?!

Another great feature is that it works in your internet browser as well as on applications like MS Office and others and corrects mistakes as you type. You can also use it to scan a whole document for mistakes. I wrote a paper for school last night using ginger as my spellchecker. I was amazed at all the typos and small grammar mistakes it found that my spell checker didn’t catch. It probably improved the grade I will receive on my paper.

I consider myself to be a halfway decent writer. However, I’m a not-so-great typist. I’m not immune to typos and small spelling errors. Hopefully, this great new software will take care of most of those problems. Everyone could benefit from using this. It saves intelligent people from simple mistakes and may even start to raise the IQ of the internet by reprimanding those language challenged individuals who plague the world wide web with their ignorance of the written word.

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the web in a while and I thought it would be great to share it with you nice people.

Stay tuned for more,

Outtamymind!

P.S. I've provided a link to the Ginger website HERE. Download today and start correcting your grammar! (No, I am not a paid employee of Ginger Software.)

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