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This is actually really useful. I just ran this as a sanity check on a long document I wrote, and it pointed out a bunch of lousy writing. Even better, it seems you can use it with the Hemingway App (http://www.hemingwayapp.com/) as you're writing...

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You mean, you pass the dictionary over your document and see how the document is too long-winded in a sense?

Yes, exactly. It points out phrases like "frequent and productive collaboration with," which would be better as "worked with," or "highly efficient execution," which could be simplified to "fast."

a more general such tool: http://proselint.com/

Thanks this looks very useful. It explicitly strives to minimize false positives.

It comes with a bullshit module, too :)

https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/master/proselint/...

Thanks, looks great. I need to get this hooked into Emacs!

This may help :-)

  (flycheck-define-checker proselint
      "A linter for prose."
      :command ("proselint" source-inplace)
      :error-patterns
      ((warning line-start (file-name) ":" line ":" column ": "
                (id (one-or-more (not (any " "))))
                (message (one-or-more not-newline)
                         (zero-or-more "\n" (any " ") (one-or-more not-newline)))
              line-end))
      :modes (text-mode markdown-mode gfm-mode org-mode))

(More details in my config at https://jamiecollinson.com/blog/my-emacs-config/#syntax-chec...)

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