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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by adam_b_long on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @11:35AM (#7225253)
Hey guys, my name is Adam Long and my brother and I created Hemingway a few months ago!

Loving the comments here. As many of you pointed out, rules are meant to be broken. Our goal was to fix a simple problem: when you're looking at your own writing for too long, you start missing the simple, obvious errors.

You can follow me on Twitter @Adam_B_Long if you're interested in chatting about Hemingway with me.

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by jimejim on Thursday February 13, 2014 @05:47PM (#7235150)
Cool. I was in the early stages of doing a userscript for gmail to do something like what you have here. All it does right now is filter out specific words/phrases I know I use too much, but I found some scripts that check for passive voice and "weasel words" that I want to incorporate.

This is definitely cool.

You may want to check this out, if you haven't seen it already:

http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voi...

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by Perceval on Thursday February 13, 2014 @11:56AM (#7232406)
If you want to be even more advanced in your Hemingway analysis of text, you will want to have a feature that highlights long Latinate-root words and suggests short Germanic-root synonyms as replacements.
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