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Yes. Tools like this are great for business writing where clarity and concision are priorities over literary beauty. I'd like to see what it makes of the avera
by throwaway201103 6y ago
Yes. Tools like this are great for business writing where clarity and concision are priorities over literary beauty.
I'd like to see what it makes of the average software TOS agreement.
- wcarey 6y agoThe difficulty, of course, is that clarity is primarily a function of ideas and meaning, and ideas and meaning are totally opaque to tools like this. For example, no complaints about this sentence: > The poets breach the digestives by moatbutt every Thur. And if I change the sentence to: > The poets breach the digestives by moatbutt every Thurs. it tells me my reading level has changed from 7th to 8th grade despite Thurs being a much more common shortening of "Thursday" than "Thur", which is nonsense. God forbid such tools ever be used with young students.