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My style checker finds weasel words, passive voice, and repeated words (a lexical illusion). It also finds confused words as well (another lexical illusion). It

• daleharvey 16y ago
  I just deleted my half written comment about afterthedeadline, I use it a lot to do exactly as the post describes. It catches my mistakes every time, eventually I will stop making them heres hoping. Thanks for it though, great tool.
• Groxx 16y ago
  >and repeated words One of the things I hate most about English (and this is by no means a rant on how stoopid English is) is that "that that" can be grammatically correct. It's a minor thing really, but I could swear it's mocking me some days.
  • crystalis 16y ago
    That that that that offers a nice example too.
    • hugh3 16y ago
      That "that that that that" that that comment included would only be correct if you included quotation marks.
      • bmm6o 16y ago
        The first draft had had "had had".
  • bdr 16y ago
    Check out the "Lexical ambiguity" section of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sent...
    • Groxx 16y ago
      haha, nice, hadn't seen that one before. I love the last Japanese one (chosen because I've had some Japanese) Touou wo ooou. (東欧を覆おう。) meaning "Let's cover eastern Europe."
• alextp 16y ago
  detex is easy to use and strips the latex out of latex files. You can also extract the text from a dvi using catdvi, and from a pdf using pdftotext, so I think you could probably afford to support latex :-)