float_on_alright | Word Nerd (Reply)

Grammarly has come out with a Beta for being able to edit Google Docs using the extension and, oh my goodness am I excited about that. I like Grammarly. It’s not perfect of course, but it really does help me with a lot of things. They also send me a weekly “report” that talks about how much I’ve written, how many mistakes I’ve made, which mistakes are the most common for me, and what my “unique vocabulary” is like--meaning how many different words did I use over the course of the week in the writing it analyzed. It’s kind of fun. And while I know there are people out there with vast vocabularies that can use words I didn’t even know could exist, it’s still nice to see when I’m in the “top of Grammarly users” or whatever. It’s kind of like when you take the EOGs as a kid and they tell you scored in the top percentile of the country or state. I don’t know what to compare that to for my non-American friends or for people who weren’t into being giant nerds about their test results, sorry.

But anyway, a lot of my writing is done in Google docs and I don’t always get around to copying and pasting into Grammarly because I’d have to copy and paste it back anyway and it’s just a whole thing. You can save documents in Grammarly much like you can google docs, but it’s not quite the same. If you’ve used it, you probably know what I mean. So the nice is that now, no matter if I remember to copy and paste into Grammarly or not, I’ll still get my words counted towards my report--both the general number and the unique word count.

I say I’m a nerd all the time. I think I’m a nerd all the time. But there are moments that the extent and hue of my nerdom really hit home and this is one of those moments.

I’m honestly excited about this Grammarly development and I can’t think of anything more representative of my English Literature/Creative Writing nerdiness than that except maybe the time I got really excited to look up the etymology of the word “truncate” in the Oxford English Dictionary.

When I can call myself ‘wealthy’ or I win the lottery, I am so buying a personal subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary, I kid you not.