DICTION(1)                UNIX System V(May 10, 1986)                DICTION(1)


NAME
      diction, explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction

SYNOPSIS
      diction [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -n ] [ -f pfile ] file ...
      explain

DESCRIPTION
      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 ALSO
      deroff(1)

BUGS
      Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect sentence
      breaks.  In particular, diction doesn't grok -me.




























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