Is it not possible to proof-read the sample sentences for grammar, punctuation and spelling? It must cause confusion and unwanted inconsistencies in the spoken submissions. For example, did you really want to hear that Leonardo Di Caprio is staring in a new film, or starring ? It makes a differen…

I’m not talking about homophones, I reject when someone read “gonna” or “wanna” the they should have said “going to”/“want to”.

I’m specifically talking about issues like “here” in place of “hear”, which I have seen in the text.

Got it, well I don’t know about this one.

We now have the Sentence Collector which provides a way to submit new sentences and have them validated. However, it has only been live for the past few weeks and many of the sentences pre-date that. In fact, English currently has a big backlog so you are reviewing sentences recorded around a year a…

[image] dabinat: I believe the eventual plan is to resubmit the existing sentences through the Sentence Collector so they can be validated and fixed as needed. We want to run an automated clean-up an on the existing sentences. We haven’t established yet a final process to solve the issue desc…

‘Hear’ and ‘here’ might be a distracting error in print, but would not necessarily affect the spoken words. Leonardo Di Caprio ‘staring’ in a film would, however.

In my area, there’s a big difference between ‘hear’ (heer) and here (hee-ya).

Even if it doesn’t make a difference to pronunciation, sometimes speakers pause or stumble when they encounter a mistake in the text.

[image] nukeador: We want to run an automated clean-up an on the existing sentences. We haven’t established yet a final process to solve the issue described here, the current one is to request the removal of these sentences and then re-submit them corrected to the sentence collector tool. Any i…

Grammatically poor sample sentences

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rogersto (Roger Stone) March 5, 2019, 5:02pm 9

How many are we talking about? A good proof-reader should be able to check and edit at quite a speed; much quicker than it takes to speak them.

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Grammatically poor sample sentences

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