Reading Level Meme

[hobgoblinn]

Ganked from keladry_lupin:

Movie Reviews

Ouch. I thought I would score higher than that. But I'm not sure how far back they check content. And I did use words like "dude" and "freaking" in the most recent entry. But the weather kind of robbed me of coherent speech for a bit there. I'm sure you understand.

Then too, if we aspire to have people actually read our work, maybe this is the kind of score we should be aiming for. I'm not suggesting we should dumb down content, but just make sure that the ideas presented are clear and easy to follow. I have it on good authority that Jr High kids are not dumb. Mine is certainly too smart for his own good.

Interestingly, some of the people on my flist who are fantastic writers I much admire got the same score. One even got an elementary level instead. I feel better now.

And this is not getting my summer_of_giles segment for Friday rewritten. I asked sahiya for a sanity check on some backstory/ mythology and got way more than I bargained for. (Also, in case you were wondering, no evidence of sanity was discovered.) I really appreciate her taking the time as busy as she is these days, and wish her luck on her own summer_of_giles story.

Comments

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, I used that tool to check the readability of "The Cask of Amontillado" They said "elementary school," so I don't think it's very accurate.

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

It gave me college (postgrad), but that was probably due to all of the incomprehensible sciency things that I post about that no-one reads because they are so boring.

[emelye-miller.livejournal.com]

I scored elementary school! Apparently I need to say "balls" less and "obfuscate" more. Oh well.

[(Anonymous)]

I scored Elementary. I'm surprisingly okay with this, considering I do enough academic writing in real life and this is the special part of squee in me that cannot be expressed in my profession ;)

oops.

[allelhia.livejournal.com]

that was me above. Forgot to login. Doh! Note to self, drink the coffee, THEN respond.