I am complex and hard to decipher

[andrewducker]

andrewducker's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 11
Average number of words per sentence:	24.89
Average number of syllables per word:	1.42
Total words in sample:	1369
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Comments

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Christ, you're worse than me! I tried various of my pals and 10 was the highest I got..

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I got a grade 7, but I have no idea if that's good or bad.

If this test is telling me I write like a 7th grader, I'm not going to be happy, though ;)

[andrewducker]

nope, it means a 7th grader should be able to read your text and understand it.

Not being American, I'm not sure how old a 7th grader is.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Oh, great, so I don't write anything so deep that a 13 year old wouldn't grasp it immediately? I think I'm going to go and be depressed now ;)

[andrewducker]

You don't explain things in such a complex, circuitious and generally opaque manner that a thirteen year old wouldn't be able to grasp the inherent meaning in it.

I, on the alternate hand, incline towards the habit of complication and circumlocution, thus causing those with less experience of the written language to find my style both confusing and obfuscatory.

The index is based on word length and sentence length. I tend to use long words and sentences that should be hacked down a lot. You tend to write in fairly short sentences in an understandable manner.

Does that seem so unreasonable?

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Unreasonable? No. Unintellectual? Kinda ;)

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

Hey, I got grade 5.

Damn it, I'm a tech writer. We aim to keep our Flesch-Kincaid index down. I'm proud!

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks, I feel better that I'm not the only one :D

Tech writer...that's a job I'd love to have.

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

Ah, I guess I overstated. My education is tech-writing (my master's degree), and I've done some ISO docs and computer manuals. I love it. They pay me to write.

Now, they pay me to program. Love that too.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I suck at programming ;)

I temped in a technical writing department of a pharmaceutical company once, and really loved the idea. Especially when I found out what the writers made when they went free-lance. I was assured of a job there, as secretary with opportunity to advance to writer, but then they gave it to someone else, so bah.