: Re: Self-check redundant words I find myself using redundant words. (Ask a question: To ask is to pose a question, so question is redundant.) Apart from experience, is there any method to self-check?

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If you were writing in German, the softwares Papyrus Autor (since 1992, Germany) and Patchwork (since 2014, Austria), both very similar in functionality to Scrivener, offer an advanced style analysis tool that marks up register, repetitions, filler, overly long sentences, and other stylistic weaknesses. The style analysis was proposed to the developers of Papyrus by German author Andreas Eschbach, who explains it on his website, both in general and in Papyrus.

I understand that probably none of you write in German, but I posted this answer anyway to show that a solution is theoretically possible, both programmatically and manually. You may want to try Google Translate to read Eschbach's article and see if his method seems plausible to you, although I must admit that that translation is terrible and requires quite a bit of hard thinking to make sense of.

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