diction

sentence grammar and readability analyzer

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  1. Package version
    diction-1.11p0
  2. Maintainer
    Pascal Stumpf

Diction and style are two old standard Unix commands. Diction identifies
wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface
characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other
readability measures.

These programs cannot help you structure a document well, but they can
help to avoid poor wording and compare the readability (not the
understandability!) of your documents with others. Both commands support
English and German documents.