A linguistics tool to help you simplify your writing
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#2Testing this by using it to write a blog post. So far so good. It's pretty nifty for "pruning" dense writing.
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#3Reminds me of this:
http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8074243
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#4http://draftin.com has something like this as well
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#5Most writing needs pruning. Not mine. Thanks.
:P
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#6I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.
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#7I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.
I feel like every 4 or 5 comments, someone comments as if they have some new insight ;)
Seriously though, this is a pretty useful tool, especially for people who are new at writing.
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#8I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.
> I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.
Every 4 or 5 years everyone celebrates terse writing like it's new.
FTFY.
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#9Is there no beauty in painting vivid pictures through
colourful expression?
Sure, being terse makes consumption faster and easier, but don't you trade
that for the tool of directing the reader's imagination?
I guess the skill is in being terse yet still descriptive?
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#10This reminds me of the "Hemingway" app that failed Hemingway: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416
Can I also just point out that "I was exhausted." is not passive voice! And "Our work here is done." also shouldn't be highlighted, it's absolutely fine. What the hell? With these kinds of false positives, this seems like it would do more harm than good.