This is neat. Reminds me of http://www.hemingwayapp.com
Anyone aware of other stuff like this or want to shamelessly promote something? I'm interested.
Anyone aware of other stuff like this or want to shamelessly promote something? I'm interested.
It seems a bit miscalibrated though. I tried pasting in the current front-page article from The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/obama-drone-str...), and it becomes almost completely red ("27 out of 37 sentences are very hard to read"). If it categorizes ordinary newspaper prose as "very hard", I wonder what kind of audience it is aimed at.
Yes, the app is apparently quite insane.
It's classic Strunk & White nonsense, the idea that simpler (even to the point of being simplistic) is always, always, always better, founded on the unfounded idea that removing words is the only way to linguistic correctness.
http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...
The augmentation shows you the personality type of the person you're talking to and suggests the best way to get them to do what you want, cajole/reason/appeal to authority, etc.