Too many katakana loanwords
katakana-densityon by default (info)Japanese
A Japanese document with more katakana loanwords than human-written articles
Example
How to fix
Replace the ones that have a plain Japanese word (議題 for アジェンダ, 根拠 for エビデンス). Product names and terms the readers use themselves can stay.
Why it matters
A run of katakana loanwords (アジェンダ, エビデンス, コンセンサス) loses readers who do not use those words every day. To the writer they are ordinary, so the density goes unnoticed.
What it does not flag
Short documents are not measured. Words in code and the names listed in chaff.yaml are not counted. Product names are counted, as they cannot be told apart, but the limit sits above most human-written technical articles.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Technical details
- Layer
- L3
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- info
- Languages
- ja
- Suited to
- blog, business, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | katakana loanwords: up to 45 per 1000 characters |
|---|---|
| normal | katakana loanwords: up to 55 per 1000 characters |
| relaxed | katakana loanwords: up to 65 per 1000 characters |
By genre
- Runs by default in
- blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript
- Not suited to, and not run in
- technical/spec, technical/readme
Message
{density} katakana loanwords per 1000 characters (limit {limit}); the most used: {words}
Rewrite depth (chaff fix-plan --depth): light — words and sentences; the structure and the voice stay
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/katakana-density.yaml