Fair Enough

[erikred]

erikred's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8
Average number of words per sentence:	16.74
Average number of syllables per word:	1.47
Total words in sample:	2227
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Ouch! I expect this has something to do with my overdependence on images and one-liners. To add insult to injury, Sir Walter Scott (sirwalterscott) has demolished me!

sirwalterscott's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 12
Average number of words per sentence:	46.31
Average number of syllables per word:	1.60
Total words in sample:	602
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Oh, the humiliation! What could possibly make me feel better about being trounced by a Scot? Wait, I know:

patrickhenry's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7
Average number of words per sentence:	16.31
Average number of syllables per word:	1.41
Total words in sample:	1256
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Hurray! I'm a grade-level above Patrick Henry (patrickhenry)! Perhaps we should have asked for liberty AND grammar lessons, Mr. Henry.

Comments

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we should have asked for liberty AND grammar lessons, Mr. Henry.

Well, er, um, that would only serve to lower your score. The score is a reflection of how easy it is to parse and understand what you write. It takes skill to wield your words in a way that efficiently conveys your meaning even to those people that do not read English very easily.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

So I'm more accessible than Sir Walter Scott?

In your face, author of Ivanhoe!

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

Totally. You are cooler than Scott! Whoo-hoo!

Well, when it comes to comprehensibility, that is. It's not a score of literary prowess. But comprehensibility prowess just doesn't fit it a sound byte.

pish

[siriosa.livejournal.com]

i got 6th grade, erik.

it's a little bit like scoring catholic on that other quiz. irrefutable evidence that something is horribly wrong.

Re: pish

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Surely you're not implying that a random quiz or analysis device on the Internet has not been tested and Quality Assured by the finest minds in the field? ;)

Re: pish

[siriosa.livejournal.com]

not suggesting, just mentioning.

and anyway, didn't QA go the same place as proofreading?

Re: pish

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes, it did. Remember when a finished project was not an untested beta and companies recalled products instead of issuing patches?