Hemmingway v/s Hemmingway
There’s this app called Hemmingway that evaluates your composition and grades it on a scale from 1 to 10. Its aim? “Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear.” It shows its results by color coding the text you entered: - Yellow for “long, complex sentences”; - Red to mean the “sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, splitting logic”; - Blue for adverbs: “Get rid of them and pick verbs with force instead”, the app recommends; - Purple where a simpler word might do e.g. “use” instead of “utilize”; - Green to indicate use of the passive voice. (You could disagree with some of the points in some contexts, but surely as a rule of thumb, most of them do make sense. And t...