Auto-Orwelliscope
v0.0001-Alpha

Not UnLucky Software
Arnot Underhill and Ar

 

Derhill, co-CEOs

George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language”—which we read last year in English 102, “The Essay and Its Resources”—has had a(n) not unimportant impact on our lives as writers of English and programmers of computers. We were not unaware of the “bad habits” English is susceptible to, but Ole Georgie’s essay really opened our eyes! We are not unfortunate enough to be English majors, so we turned to our strengths in Computer Science, and wrote a program to help us follow Ole Georgie’s writing advice automatically. We founded Not UnLucky Software out of our dorm room so we could bring our creation to you, the unsuspecting public!

So far we’ve only been able to implement Ole Georgie’s prescription against not un- in the Auto-Orwelliscope, but first-mover advantage is often not unsubstantial, so we are releasing v0.0001-Alpha right now. You can see how well it works in the rest of this announcement, which uses the Auto-Orwelliscope’s “show trace” feature so you can see how great it truly is!

About the Auto-Orwelliscope and About Us

We’re  icorns in the programming world—we know that programming talent is  iformly distributed among programmers—but we hope to climb to the top of that bell curve some day! But are we  iquely positioned today to offer a valuable new service? We think so!

It was  til we took English 102, “The Essay and Its Resources” that we really recognized the scope of the problem—and such an opportunity is  iversal, as only those who score below 1000 on their SATs are even invited to take the class!

Given our special circumstances, how could we  dertake this sacred mission? If not us, then who? Well, not Big Grammar (like Grammarly, Qordoba, Ginger, LanguageTool, and WebSpellChecker who prefer we  dermine their grammar monopolies),  iversity administrators, and surely  Cle Sam!

We can derstand how no one has done this before, so we did it! And while we have only taken one small step, we can foresee the day the Grammarian’s Gordian K tangles completely under our assault on bad writing!

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