bsd man page for explain

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NAME
       diction, explain - 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 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 con-
       tains 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.

7th Edition							   May 10, 1986 							DICTION(1)