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> The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow sentence, shorten or split it. This was highlighted in yellow. I don’t s
by lilyball 6y ago
> The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors; if you see a yellow sentence, shorten or split it.
This was highlighted in yellow. I don’t see anything wrong with this sentence. Replacing the semicolon with a period makes the editor happy, but does not seem like a positive change.
> If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic — try editing this sentence to remove the red.
This sentence is highlighted in red, and yet it does not seem dense or complex. Even removing the suffix doesn’t fix the red.
This really feels like it’s literally just penalizing you from writing anything other than short sentences. Deleting characters from the end of this makes it turn yellow once i get it to
> … follow its meandering, splitting log
“logi” is red, “log” is yellow.
Who is this editor even intended for? What sort of writing would be improved with these automated restrictions?