Introduction
Misemphasis finds how flat prose can be misread when stress is missing. An agent reads the skill and writes a report of the live readings, plus wording that locks the one you meant.
Text has no intonation. The silent reader supplies one. It may not be yours. The teaching sentence is I didn't say we should cancel Friday: seven words, seven claims.
The report comes first
The skill writes report.md. Findings in three buckets. Each finding names the readings, which one a flat reader is likely to take, and rewrites that lock one reading each. The draft does not change until you pick.
| Bucket | Means |
|---|---|
| Likely misread | A typical silent reader could take the wrong one |
| Possible misread | Available if someone goes looking |
| Judgment call | Context probably locks it; still worth a glance |
Rewrites are later. This release writes the report.
What it checks
- Emphasis shift. Stress on a different word changes who, what, or whether.
- Negation scope. What not attaches to.
- Exclusive particles. Only, even, just.
- Pronoun stress. Which referent the contrast picks.
- Quantifier scope. All, some, any under negation.
A sentence with one obvious reading is not a finding. Grammar, tone, and structure stay out.
Start here
- Install — download the zip
- Skill — the hour the agent runs
- Sample report — the teaching sentence plus two companions
- Report — the shape of
report.md