On Wednesday 04 March 2009 12:28:53 Victor Churchill wrote: > 2009/3/4 Sean Gibbins <s...@funkygibbins.me.uk>: > > Sean Gibbins wrote: > >> I used to read LF but found it was always little behind Slashdot and the > >> various other news sites, and that the articles could lag a little too > >> in terms of references to the latest versions of software, etc., under > >> discussion, for obvious reasons I guess. > > > > Gah! That was well put, wasn't it? > > > > I wouldn't normally apologise but there's a truck-driver's gear change > > in there that might cause the unwary to spill their coffee - sorry if > > you are mopping out your keyboard as you read this! > > > > :-) > > made perfect sense to me, coffee remains unspilt ;-) > And fog factor only 12.68 [1] : > > Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person > requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading > Gunning Fog index : 12.68 > > [1] http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
This rather fascinated me. So I put two things thro': first a short, concise, dense and therefore almost wholly incomprehensible to this person of 18 years education, email from the Debian users list; then a random selection of an email between Alan Bell and me about his servers. The first got a Gunning Fog index of about 6.5, the second 16.74. Great fun, but..... I defy any sixth grader to understand the first, and any literate GCSE level student would easily have understood the second. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
