Active is more assertive and therefore less boring to read so you have little excuse not to use it when you can, but passive has a lot of uses. Read 'elements of style'
petite kiss is a stupid phrase. you should have said "a little peck on the lips" ALSO the anal stuff killed my boner, even if he doesn't get any poop on his finger, the risk of it is totally unsexy and a total boner killer for me.
NTA, disgree, "petite kiss" flows far better with the run-on sentence than "a little peck on the lips."
Agreed about the anal stuff, can never understand the wide appeal of that shit (pun intended).
2 years ago
Anonymous
NTA also but "petite" applies to physical size, using it here instead of simple "small" or "little" reeks of mindless thesaurus abuse
besides changing it to "little peck" wouldn't make the sentence any more run-on, it was "a petite kiss on the lips" in the first place
2 years ago
Anonymous
>reeks of mindless thesaurus abuse
petite is common english. Are you esl?
2 years ago
Anonymous
author who uses it to describe a kiss seems like he is esl and only found the word looking for synonyms
I remember downloading this. The problem however is that Hemingway's strength was his iceberg metaphors.
Simple language without any kind of coded strength is just instruction manual fodder in the wrong hands.
Tools can be misused. Hemingway is clearly only good at judging certain writing styles, and should not be taken as objective.
It's a problem that it subtly presents itself as an objective editor, though. They should put disclaimers because I'm sure many idiots have been forced to neuter their style because the robot told them to.
>0 adverbs. well done >0 uses of passive voice. nice work >0 phrases have simpler alternatives >0 sentences are hard to read
literally have a nice day if you use this or think it's a good idea
It's just good fun, Anon. I tried various "AI editing sites" and reverse-engineered them to get the highest score. I didn't pay a dime but aced them all.
Shortcut for tone. Not a total no-go but best used sparsely. I recall Sean Penn wrote a novel (around 10 years ago) and the excerpts, which were being passed around to make fun of it, were full of them.
Why is passive voice bad?
Yeah, I never understood why they always "correct" that. Maybe they think it affects clarity
It makes you sound like a wishy washy pussy.
here's what it thought of my Anne Frank sex scene
Active is more assertive and therefore less boring to read so you have little excuse not to use it when you can, but passive has a lot of uses. Read 'elements of style'
petite kiss is a stupid phrase. you should have said "a little peck on the lips" ALSO the anal stuff killed my boner, even if he doesn't get any poop on his finger, the risk of it is totally unsexy and a total boner killer for me.
NTA, disgree, "petite kiss" flows far better with the run-on sentence than "a little peck on the lips."
Agreed about the anal stuff, can never understand the wide appeal of that shit (pun intended).
NTA also but "petite" applies to physical size, using it here instead of simple "small" or "little" reeks of mindless thesaurus abuse
besides changing it to "little peck" wouldn't make the sentence any more run-on, it was "a petite kiss on the lips" in the first place
>reeks of mindless thesaurus abuse
petite is common english. Are you esl?
author who uses it to describe a kiss seems like he is esl and only found the word looking for synonyms
I remember downloading this. The problem however is that Hemingway's strength was his iceberg metaphors.
Simple language without any kind of coded strength is just instruction manual fodder in the wrong hands.
I used it to check if my purple prose erotica had overly complex sentences, but nowadays I do that by myself.
according to Hemingway Editor, Proust has a readability level of 15, which is poor
According to Hemmingway and Grammarly, this is Proust for fifth graders.
I did it, boys! I killed literature!
Tools can be misused. Hemingway is clearly only good at judging certain writing styles, and should not be taken as objective.
It's a problem that it subtly presents itself as an objective editor, though. They should put disclaimers because I'm sure many idiots have been forced to neuter their style because the robot told them to.
So lower is better you say? And I've been aiming for a high score this whole time...
Is there anyone who has done more damage to literature than this guy?
You haven't seen anything yet. Let's do more damage!
Can we fix it?
If there's a will, there's a way.
>0 adverbs. well done
>0 uses of passive voice. nice work
>0 phrases have simpler alternatives
>0 sentences are hard to read
literally have a nice day if you use this or think it's a good idea
It's just good fun, Anon. I tried various "AI editing sites" and reverse-engineered them to get the highest score. I didn't pay a dime but aced them all.
what's wrong with adverbs
Bad writing. Poor descriptions, adds bloat
Shortcut for tone. Not a total no-go but best used sparsely. I recall Sean Penn wrote a novel (around 10 years ago) and the excerpts, which were being passed around to make fun of it, were full of them.