Gateway to avoiding cliché
Quite simply you cut n paste your text into the box, then click on "find cliches" and it'll point out to you how boring and unimaginative the text is...
Helpful if you want to be a pedant and really irritate someone, by applying it to their work. Or ego-destroying if you feel compelled to push any of your own stuff through the wringer...
Helpful if you want to be a pedant and really irritate someone, by applying it to their work. Or ego-destroying if you feel compelled to push any of your own stuff through the wringer...
3 comments:
I thought this would be a great test for my poems and was delighted when the first three I entered into the cliche finder came up with no cliches at all. Then I decided to test it and entered some random bits of journalism from the web and got the same response. I then entered a series of cliches and it still didn't spot them. It's American - they've got different cliches. Maybe that's it
Just checked the link at the end of the test:
"(Cliches (sic) from Associated Press Guide to News Writing, Rene J. Cappon.)"
...and discovered that the cliché dictionary is not exactly Johnson-esque in its breadth).
Note to self - be sure to test quality of internet links before recommending them...
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