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This browser comes with a filter tool with various options, allowing you to select or deselect various types of sentence structure.
When you browse a webpage, and have the filter enabled, the filter replaces all sentences of the filtered-out variety with whitespace.
There might be some good reasons
why someone would want to only read present-tense sentences, or to filter out sentences with intransitive verbs, or to only read things written in Third Person Plural Conditional Past Perfect Continuous form.
Or perhaps not.
Still, even if there are no *good* reasons, this browser option would still be useful to anyone suffering from idle curiosity, procrastination or madness.
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I do some writing from time to time (getting published this year) and one of my frequent gramatical screw-ups is dropping in and out of the tense I started with. It would be nice to have something to scan through and make sure everything is in the right tense. [+] And the curiosity/madness. |
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Riight.. Mm-hmm, insane? Well if you're insane, it'd be great, but I can't really think of any time I'd use it.. |
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This reminds me of something that happened to me a while back. Ahh, I miss those days. |
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Excuse me, I don't \\suffer\\ from procrastination! I exalt in it! I flourish in it! |
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Or, at least I would if I could find the time for it. |
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Such a tool would be very useful for detecting some forms of spam, and "translations" from one language into gibberish via translating programs... two things I'd rather not see in my searches anyway. |
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Before you write a tool to filter sentences in a
browser, try just writing a tool to parse English.
That’s a hard enough problem on its own. Minused
because this idea depends on a problem people have
been struggling with for years that still hasn’t been
solved, and it doesn’t acknowledge the difficulty of
solving that problem. |
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Where does he specify English? Maybe this is for Volapük.
After all, the proposal explicitly disclaims utility. |
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