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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Writing style analyzers
Summary: Write on!
Keywords: Understanding and Comprehension, Reality and Modeling, Sentience
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Date: 14 Feb 89 20:15:46 GMT
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In article <44802@linus.UUCP>, I tendered a Writer's WorkBench
analysis of Dan Mocsny's analysis of Rightwriter.  In article
<688@uceng.UC.EDU> DU Dan rejoins:

 > I was tempted to run your post through Rightwriter. But first I
 > checked with my homunculus, and he said he's had enough of infinite
 > regress for one lifetime. Besides, it would be something like setting
 > up a dialog between Racter and Eliza.

Wouldn't it likely converge to a fixed point?

 > So do I get the job, or what?

Have you sent in your resume?  (Our bureaucracy is pretty stiff
about the paperwork.)

 > I'll admit that before I looked into this grammar-checking stuff, I
 > was not aware that the split infinitive was something "to really
 > avoid." :-)

I, too, learned that one should not use a preposition to end a sentence
with.  (I wish I had the defiance of Churchill, who fumed, "That is
one bit of grammatical nonsense up with which I will not put!)

As to reading-grade level, I now favor the model of Saturday
morning cartoons to reach the greatest audience.

--Barry Kort

"The sad part about is that he's not joking."