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Style-check a draft before publishing

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Passive voice, adverb pile-ups, and run-on sentences, flagged by the part-of-speech tagger. Tune with --max-words=N and --max-adverbs=N. Linter exit codes, so it drops into a pre-commit hook next to lingua spell.

$ lingua style < draft.md
# With "Mistakes were made by the team. She quickly and # quietly definitely ran extremely fast." in draft.md: style: passive voice: 'were made' [9,9] style: 5 adverbs in one sentence [32,54]
Requires: lingua 0.5+

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