NAME
diction, explain, suggest - 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(1) 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(1) 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.