Let's decide on error categories for writing, in all of our languages

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21

Hmm

Not really. I am fine with the ones we have. In fact you could subsume “verb form” under “word form” in my opinion. But leaving it in is not an issue for me. I usually put more effort into the writing report.

22

I would like to finalize these categories. Please have a look a the language that interests you and comment. We are going to go with English only for the categories for now.

English

Article

  • Preposition
    Pronoun

  • Word order
    Verb

  • Word choice

  • Punctuation

  • Spelling

  • Unnatural usage

  • Singular/Plural

French/Spanish/Italian/Portuguese

Article

  • Gender
  • Preposition
    Pronoun
  • Word order
  • Agreement
  • Tense
  • Word choice
  • Punctuation
  • Spelling
  • Unnatural usage
  • Singular/Plural

German

Article
Case

  • Gender
  • Preposition
    Pronoun
  • Word order
  • Verb aspect
  • Verb agreement
  • Tense
  • Word choice
  • Punctuation
  • Spelling
  • Unnatural usage
  • Singular/Plural

Russian

Case

  • Gender
  • Preposition
    Pronoun
  • Word order
  • Verb aspect
  • Verb agreement
  • Tense
  • Word choice
  • Punctuation
  • Spelling
  • Unnatural usage
  • Singular/Plural

Chinese

  • Preposition
    Pronoun
  • Word order
    -Noun counters
    -Verb
  • Word choice
  • Punctuation
  • Character
  • Unnatural usage
  • Singular/Plural

Japanese

Pronoun

  • Word order
    -Noun counters
    -Noun tags (particles) wa, ga, ni, etc.
    Verb form
  • Word choice
  • Punctuation
    Spelling
  • Character
  • Unnatural usage
  • Singular/Plural

Swedish

Article

  • Preposition
    Pronoun
  • Word order
    Gender
    Verb
  • Word choice
  • Punctuation
  • Spelling
  • Unnatural usage
  • Singular/Plural
23

A great improvement! I completely agree with Spanish categories (as Berta said, gender was really a must)!!

24

English looks fine, but I thought spelling would be left up to the spell checker. Anyway, keeping it on wouldn’t hurt.

25

I see that verb aspect appears by mistake in the German list. I put that there to see if anyone was paying attention. -:))

26

A spellchecker won’t pick up homophones, although I don’t usually correct ordinary spelling mistakes (just add a suggestion to use a spellchecker).

By the way, how do you spell spell-checker?

27

I noticed that this week the list of error categories for Russian was changed. I really like it!
But there is still the “Article” error :))