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Just a small note: looking at the source code almost made me look over my shoulder, there is about 30 different situations being reported to Google Analytics as events. The makers of this _really_ knows how you are using their product.
"Four score and seven years ago..." - the sentence is very hard to read.
"all men are created equal" and "we are engaged in a great civil war" - passive voice.
And so on...
The moral is that you should not trust an automatic tool to judge your writing style.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm more than a little worried that, because of AI advances, automated methods will finally (and undesirably) hide the "voice" of the text's originator. But for a lot of writing this is a good thing, having cohesive writing trumps losing the voice. It isn't fiction that I think these tools will be useful or desirable for, it is the mountains of technical writing we are drowning in. More troubling is the use of auto…
Agreed. We could point out that, for the last 30-odd years, Strunk and White's "Elements of Style" has served as the homogenizing cudgel used to beat every writer's voice into submission. But, by and large, the influence of EoS has been a good thing. It's helped a lot more people than it's hurt. Serious and professional writers generally write for two things: clarity and insight. Stylistic preferences shouldn't stamp…