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Yet, as Hemingways paragraphs go, that is perhaps a bit twisty.Close Alert Close Sign In Search Search News Books Culture Fiction Poetry Humor Cartoons Magazine Crossword Video Podcasts Archive Festival Open Navigation Menu Menu Story Saved To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.Close Alert Close Page-Turne r Hemingway Takes the Hemingway Test By Ian Crouc h February 13, 2014 Facebook Twitter Email Print Save Story Save this story for later.
![]() Hemingway App Desktop Plus Years ThatTicket stubs, telegrams, Christmas cards, diary entriesall of it amassed in the twenty-plus years that Hemingway kept his house there. Amid the collection, McGrath identifies two notes that Hemingway had seemingly written to himself, in pencil. And the other: You can remove words which are unnecessary and tighten up your prose. The above paragraph scored an O.K. Hemingway, an app, created by the brothers Adam and Ben Long, which analyzes text and, as it promises, makes your writing bold and clear. ![]() It also calls out adverbs (newly, famously, seemingly), difficult-to-read sentences (the first being very hard to read, while the second was just hard), and instances of the passive voice. After spending our days writing, we realized a common mistake: sentences easily grow to the point that they became difficult to understand, the Longs told me on Wednesday in an e-mail. Our text was more clear and persuasive when we kept it simple. Adam, who is twenty-five, works in marketing in North Carolina. ![]() They collaborated online, with Adam doing the coding and Ben figuring out the writing rules. Hemingway launched in September, and gained wide notice this week after it was shared on Hacker News. The app is free, and the brothers are working, in their off hours, on a desktop version, as well as an extension for Web browsers. Hemingway uses a formula to judge the reading level of a particular selection of writing, which the Longs said is a measure of how complex the sentence structure is and how big the words youre using are. The app suggests that anything under Grade 10 is a sign of bold, clear writing. Bold and clear, thats the popular image of the Hemingway personathe kind of man, as Lillian Ross observed in her Profile of him for The New Yorker, who could walk into an Abercrombie Fitch store, and, being approached by a sales clerk, say, simply, Want to see coat. And Hemingways notes to himself from Cuba show a parallel artistic imperative: the search for blunt, descriptive, concise prose. So would Hemingway have approved of Hemingway Or, another question: Would he pass the tests he helped inspire What about the visually potent opening paragraph from his short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him. Bad news. Hemingway rates merely O.K. Grade 15). That very in the first sentence might have been cut. It may have a point there: Doesnt the fact that everyone had left but one man suggest just how late it was) The second sentence is hard to read and the third is very hard to read.
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