Hey! I’m a pop science writer, so I use a lot of Latin names and scientific terms. I love LanguageTool, but the default dictionary is seriously lacking in the language I use, which constantly causes it to mark stuff as wrong. It gets pretty annoying.
Can someone explain the best way to expand it so it recognizes taxonomy and similar? For example, I just wrote this text, and the tool marked all the bolded words as wrong.
"As far as snails go, the Planorbidae are quite unusual. Firstly, they’re pulmonates. This means that even though they’re aquatic, they don’t have gills: they use lungs to breathe. And they do so quite efficiently, because their blood contains iron-based hemoglobin, just like in humans. Most other snails have hemocyanin, which is copper-based and much less effective at transporting oxygen.
Also unusual is the shape of the shell, which is flat rather than pointy, and its coils. You might be surprised, but mollusk shell coils have actually been researched pretty thoroughly by scientists. The vast majority of species has dextral whorls, while those of ramshorns are sinistral."
For now, I suggest you add them to your personal dictionary. If you have a list of these words, you could also post it here, and we’ll consider adding it to the LT dictionary.
Unfortunately this concerns hundreds of different scientific names for plant and animal species, as I cover a wide range of topics. And with the rest of these words it’s always a surprise whether LT will recognize it or not!
Is there any reason that Latin taxonomy hasn’t been added anyway? It’s not like you could misspell something and accidentally get a Latin name—if someone types them, they do it on purpose. There should be full lists of these out there (I can look for them?) and it might be helpful for many people who write about animals, plants, fungi, and more.
