Diction and style are two old standard Unix commands. Diction identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other readability measures.
These programs cannot help you structure a document well, but they can help to avoid poor wording and compare the readability (not the understandability!) of your documents with others. Both commands support English and German documents.
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; LANG=C diction --lang en --suggest /tmp/testfile
/tmp/testfile:2: These programs cannot help you structure a document well, but [they -> (do not use as substitute for "each, each one, everybody, every one, anybody, any one, somebody, some one")] [can -> (do not confuse with "may")] help to avoid poor wording and [compare -> "Compare" to points out resemblances, "compare with" points out differences.] the readability (not the understandability!) of your documents with others.
; cat <<EOF >/tmp/testfile
Diction and style are two old standard Unix commands. Diction identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other readability measures.
These programs cannot help you structure a document well, but they can help to avoid poor wording and compare the readability (not the understandability!) of your documents with others. Both commands support English and German documents.
EOF
; LANG=C diction --lang en --suggest /tmp/testfile
/tmp/testfile:2: These programs cannot help you structure a document well, but [they -> (do not use as substitute for "each, each one, everybody, every one, anybody, any one, somebody, some one")] [can -> (do not confuse with "may")] help to avoid poor wording and [compare -> "Compare" to points out resemblances, "compare with" points out differences.] the readability (not the understandability!) of your documents with others.
3 phrases in 5 sentences found.