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 the app is free, so what do you expect?) Keeping in mind that the smartphone generation may not be all that much into long form writing (texts and tweets may be their preferred mode), the app has