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[aspara]

aspara's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9Average number of words per sentence:19.65Average number of syllables per word:1.42Total words in sample:2554Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebernSo, according to this application of the Flesch-Kincaid formula, my journal is intelligible only to those persons who read at a ninth grade level or above.

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show me a 7th grader who says 'vicissitudes' and i'll show you my saq stapled to your forehead

[billyphuz]

hmm. damnit, you really fucked me up, dude, because now i'm looking at "hmm" as my first sentence and realizing that my score is down because it's destroying my word-per-sentence average; however, these two independent clauses joined by a semicolon may perhaps assuage said w-p-s deficit.

wachs does a "draw a person" and "draw a house" analysis, in which a kid is assigned a clinical age. the "person" score is derived from a variety of factors; presence of clothing, neck, and crotch are apparently major stepping stones. the "house" requires three-dimensionality, a slanted roof with a straight chimney, and evenly spaced windows.

i drew a person for wachs. my clinical age is nine years, seven months.

Re: show me a 7th grader who says 'vicissitudes' and i'll show you my saq stapled to your forehead

[bugboy3001]

Who the hell draws clothes on people?

Er... everyone else just draws stick figures, right?

Also, my house would probably be 2-d.

wachs is a fucko.

Re: show me a 7th grader who says 'vicissitudes' and i'll show you my saq stapled to your forehead

[alfpogs]

How is the crotch supposed to look?

Re: show me a 7th grader who says 'vicissitudes' and i'll show you my saq stapled to your forehead

[billyphuz]

ahh, kind of hard to describe. apparently there's some kind of developmental scheme where kids start drawing crotches and necks, as opposed to round circle (head) sitting directly on big oval (body) which has four long, balloon-y limbs jutting out. the crotch, i guess, is supposed to be the two legs joining together at the base of the body, ie [begin horrifying attempt at ascii art]

o
O
/\

instead of

o
O
||

[/ascii art]

kinda sounds suspiciously like bullshit, doesn't it?

[bugboy3001]

I tend to think of myself as being occasionally long-winded, but in fact it would appear that I am only .02 words per sentence more long-winded than you. Go us! Maybe.

(I wish I could write like a junior in high school, at least...)

yeah, about that

[aspara]

So the only people who write at a 12th grade level have empty pages. In fact, I've only found 1 person with actual text on his page who requires a reading level of 10th grade: his name is deadbody. This is the sum content of his page:

Friday, February 20th, 2004
9:09 pm
[Subject:] Ha Ha Fuckers. I deleted my journal entrys
[Body:] Bleed me an ocean.

So you can make of that what you will.

[mwittier]

fabulist has a 12th grade level. Want I should beat him up?

M.

Because say the word, and I will.

Fublist is a trip

[aspara]

So I got around to checking out Fabulist's page, expecting to find a page of nothing but pictures (as LJs with a sample size of 0 seem to register as 12th grade automatically), only to find the diary of a man who writes exclusively in paragraph long sentences. I started reading his story about the sea lions, and while his discriptions have flair, and while, from the comments he gets, the stories must be really good if you can get through 'em, trying to parse through 40 word sentences really is WORK. That guy comes by his 12 grade reading level justly. Interesting journal, though. Maybe I'll give it another go when I'm better rested.

Now go beat him up.

Of course.

[mwittier]

I guess that explains why I date ninth-graders.

[alfpogs]

Wow, we are awesome. Wait, I need to throw around some bigger words; perhaps off of Vocabulary List #9 (was that proper semi-colon use?)

Existentialism. Procurement. Bourgeoisie. Supercalafragalisticexpialadocious.

All words 9th graders (and I) use regularly, of course.

[aspara]

Dammit, every class has one kid who talks about existentialism and the bourgeoisie in 9th grade--that same damn kid who pretends to understand Kafka, and wears a black beret to gym class. That kid is such a snooty motherfucker--kick his ass in the chess tournament one time and he'll be a plague on you for the rest of the year.

Now I'm all mad. I'd better go eat a bagel. I hate bagels--boiled bread: who came up with that stupid idea?

[alfpogs]

Ah, I remember those kids well. Interesting sort... What would you say if I said I was one of them? I mean, I wasn't, OBVIOUSLY, pishaw. But wouldn't that be a twist of events?

Anyway, sorry to have angered you to the point of bagel eating. Because bagels are what one eats when agitated... Perhaps the ultimate in mad dinner dining?!?

Is it really boiled bread? I had no idea.

[sybz]

You have longer sentences, but I use bigger words. My score: 16.47 : 1.57 : 5288. However, we both write to a ninth grade audience.