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(You did that on purpose, right?) Gunning Fog Grade = 0.4 x [ words/sentences + 100 x (hard_words/words)] Words = 157, sentences = 7, hard_words = 10 or so G

by ableal 17y ago

(You did that on purpose, right?) Gunning Fog Grade = 0.4 x [ words/sentences + 100 x (hard_words/words)] Words = 157, sentences = 7, hard_words = 10 or so G.F.Grade = 0.4 x (22.43 + 6.37) = 11.52 I award bonus points for the single paragraph wall of text ;-)(doesn't seem contemplated here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index , but it should be ...) P.S. The Wikipedia page lists this calculator site: http://simbon.madpage.com/Fog/ http://simbon.madpage.com/Fog/ , which calculates 14.46. It is thrown off by the en-dashes (counts 151 words), and counts 22 "3+ syllable words", including 'area' (true but amusing, given it's only five letters).

tokenadult 17y ago
Much of my occasional writing online illustrates the saying, "Easy writing makes vile hard reading." Thanks for posting the scores. Yes, to make writing easy to read takes effort at editing. Now for a rewrite: You can believe what the blog post says if you think about what most people read FOR FUN. People who visit websites to get something done don't want that to be hard. So a website shouldn't be any harder to read than what people read for fun. Easy to use websites gain market share. Harder websites lose market share. Most adults don't read hard books except for their jobs. Most best-selling books are written at a junior high reading level. The submissions to Hacker News that get the most upvotes are usually also at a simple reading level. An HN submission with the reading level of scholarly writing doesn't get many upvotes. Blog posts with a simple reading level get more upvotes, because voters can understand them. Moral of the story: keep your writing simple if you want to sell anything online. After submitting to a Gunning Fog website: The Gunning Fog index is 6.705 The number of major punctuation marks, eg. [.], was 12 The number of words was 142. The number of 3+ syllable words, highlighted in blue, was 7.
- ableal 17y ago
  I apologize for the off-topic - I actually mostly agree with you. I'll also confess that I'm partly using the comments as a sort of notebook on the interesting stuff that shows up here.

by ableal 17y ago

tokenadult 17y ago

Much of my occasional writing online illustrates the saying, "Easy writing makes vile hard reading." Thanks for posting the scores. Yes, to make writing easy to read takes effort at editing. Now for a rewrite: You can believe what the blog post says if you think about what most people read FOR FUN. People who visit websites to get something done don't want that to be hard. So a website shouldn't be any harder to read than what people read for fun. Easy to use websites gain market share. Harder websites lose market share. Most adults don't read hard books except for their jobs. Most best-selling books are written at a junior high reading level. The submissions to Hacker News that get the most upvotes are usually also at a simple reading level. An HN submission with the reading level of scholarly writing doesn't get many upvotes. Blog posts with a simple reading level get more upvotes, because voters can understand them. Moral of the story: keep your writing simple if you want to sell anything online. After submitting to a Gunning Fog website: The Gunning Fog index is 6.705 The number of major punctuation marks, eg. [.], was 12 The number of words was 142. The number of 3+ syllable words, highlighted in blue, was 7.

ableal 17y ago
I apologize for the off-topic - I actually mostly agree with you. I'll also confess that I'm partly using the comments as a sort of notebook on the interesting stuff that shows up here.