You Need a High School Education to Understand This Blog
Someone sent me this “Blog Readability Test” the other day so, naturally, I took it. Or rather, I inserted this blog’s URL in the designated space and, in less that a nanosecond, it read my entire blog and determined that a high school education is required to understand it.
I suppose that’s about right. I write most posts for easy readability by a wide audience that includes my teenage grandsons. But considering the program’s rapid response, I suspect it merely searched for four syllable words and, finding relatively few, determined the blog’s readability quotient. Perhaps I’ll pen a long, nonsensical essay laced with four or more syllable words and resubmit. Farcical, you say? Impracticable? Perhaps. But incontrovertibly gratifying.
Doug
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Ain't so!! I has a 8 grade edyewcashun an I kin git lots uv it.
Naw, dont neither. Maw an pa only secund grade edcashun so they haz a litle truble wif big wurds but I gots a fif grade edcashun so I gits it pretty gud.
I for one think your blog, more than most I read, is well above high school level. I find it entertaining, informative and enjoyable to follow. I hit it a couple times a day over a latte and bagel at my favorite coffee house.
You might be interested to know that I checked a some other blogs I read with this service and was surprised to discover three that are classified as either "Junior High School" or "Elementary (Grade) School". Only one was classified "College Post Grad" and it is a fairly technical blog. A few were classified as "High School" that definitely shouldn't be. Filled with misspellings and grade school grammar, I agree that the rating system may be questionable.
I can still understand this blog, even though I have a graduate degree. Good thing. I would hate to go back to high school!
Thank goodness! I left college after one year and never got around to going back (Marriage, kids. Maybe one day). Glad I am able to "understand" your blog!
It isn't a measurement of writing skill, it is a means of measuring the ability of the audience to understand what you have written. I enjoy your writing. It is conversational with just the right amount of humor or, when you are being serious (or ranting), the right amount of civility. In short, you are an enjoyable read, even for high school grads. :=D
Well, shucks. Thank ya' very much!
Nice comments, and appreciated.
Doug