DICTION(1)DICTION(1)NAME
diction, explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction
SYNOPSIS
diction [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -n ] [ -f pfile ] file ...
explainDESCRIPTION
Diction finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases from a
data base of bad or wordy diction. Each phrase is bracketed with [ ].
Because diction runs deroff before looking at the text, formatting
header files should be included as part of the input. The default
macro package -ms may be overridden with the flag -mm. The flag -ml
which causes deroff to skip lists, should be used if the document
contains many lists of non-sentences. The user may supply her/his own
pattern file to be used in addition to the default file with -f pfile.
If the flag -n is also supplied the default file will be suppressed.
Explain is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction.
SEE ALSOderoff(1)BUGS
Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence
breaks. In particular, diction doesn't grok -me.
7th Edition May 10, 1986 DICTION(1)