DICTION(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual DICTION(1) NAME diction, explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for dic- tion SYNOPSIS diction [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -n ] [ -f pfile ] file ... explain DESCRIPTION _D_i_c_t_i_o_n finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases from a data base of bad or wordy diction. Each phrase is bracketed with [ ]. Because _d_i_c_t_i_o_n runs _d_e_r_o_f_f 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 _p_f_i_l_e. If the flag -n is also supplied the default file will be suppressed. _E_x_p_l_a_i_n 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, _d_i_c_t_i_o_n doesn't grok -me. Printed 11/26/99 May 10, 1986 1