My blog's readability rating
It might sound like a bad thing. But I’m happy to learn that my writing is understandable to people with elementary school education. Language as a communication tool is very important to me and I continue to explore and use it in multiple registers. Sometimes you need academic/sophisticated writing, but a lot of the time, what’s actually appropriate is just “simple English”. And there are simple and automatic ways to calculate this for more common languages.
This is also related to one of the classes I’m taking. Many of the privacy policies in the world and especially in the US are specifically written so that they are hard to read and understand, so that they can hide all sorts of nasty and obtrusive provisions there among other text.
(Via Jason Hong.)
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