Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Neutrals (5)

Neutral-thinking exploration

• Grammarly is a free online writing assistant app designed to improve word usage, spelling, punctuation, and the like.
• In addition to having word usage, spelling, and punctuation checkers, it has a tone checker.
• Grammarly has identified the tone in this post and its three predecessors as anxious*.


Painting-with-neutrals exploration


postcard start #3, resting


* !!!!! **
** And, yes, neutral is one of the tones Grammarly checks for.

10 comments:

carol edan said...

I am the world's WORST speller! If I didn't have "grammarly" and every other spell checker, well I can't imagine. I think my blocks in spelling and arithmetic stem to "Miss Greenleaf" my third grade teacher! But "tone" haven't seen that in action on my posts. How /where? I see contrast.drama. and tension.

dotty seiter: now playing said...

When I compose at blogger, the Grammarly logo appears in the bottom right corner: a little green circle with its upper case G formed by an arrow that spins around periodically to show me it's paying attention, and turns red and sports a number to indicate how many matters need my attention. Shortly after I begin composing, that circle is joined by the tone checker to its left, an emoji indicating the perceived tone of my words.

Thanks for your contrast-drama-tension feedback for my postcard start, feedback that seems entirely on target, something I cannot say about Grammarly's feedback on my words!

Simone said...

Haaaa! Never knew that Grammarly had a tone checker!

dotty seiter: now playing said...

I just keep shaking my head and laughing every time Grammarly tells me the tone of my writing is one of anxiety!

carol edan said...

I saw that spinning G but haven't seen tone... are you on premium?

carol edan said...

Just saw it... my head seems to need re-adjusting.

Lola (Jen Jovan) said...

Tone? OMG! Now I have to try this. I wonder if there is an app that reads the "tone" of art? Your neutral postcard start might have a slightly pointy tone going on...ha ha!

dotty seiter: now playing said...

The tone checker has captivated me recently. I sometimes poke around trying alternative phrasing as I draft to see how G takes in my words.

I wonder if postcard start #3 will still be pointy in tone after it becomes postcard finish #3!

Sheila said...

Haha, laughing about tone checker. Sometimes it makes me wonder... do I really sound sad, angry, neutral. And is neutral a bad thing in a blog post? Haha! But it is always nice to see a happy face. Kinda like a gold star on your homework. Haha Loving your neutrals Dotty. And amazed at the different feelings they invoke, even unfinished. :)

dotty seiter: now playing said...

Haha, laughing about that tone checker, too! It has me captivated recently. Glad for your nod to the neutrals, Sheila, and your feedback about the different feelings they invoke : )

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