I ran Long Time Gone through a readability check and got the following results:

Readability Results for http://johnmccrarey.com
Readability ResultsSummary Value
Total sentences 674
Total words 7,889
Average words per Sentence 11.70
Words with 1 Syllable 5,304
Words with 2 Syllables 1,526
Words with 3 Syllables 751
Words with 4 or more Syllables 308
Percentage of word with three or more syllables 13.42%
Average Syllables per Word 1.50
Gunning Fog Index 10.05
Flesch Reading Ease 67.97
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 6.69
Interpreting the Results

Philip Chalmers of Benefit from IT provided the following typical Fog Index scores, to help ascertain the readability of documents.
Typical Fog Index Scores Fog Index Resources
6 TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain
8 Reader’s Digest
8 - 10 Most popular novels
10 Time, Newsweek
11 Wall Street Journal
14 The Times, The Guardian
15 - 20 Academic papers
Over 20 Only government sites can get away with this, because you can’t ignore them.
Over 30 The government is covering something up

Ok, apparently I didn’t get docked for bad spelling. And I guess writing at the level of Time and Newsweek works for me. Especially since LTG is free from liberal bias!

Of course, I ought to be writing something profound instead of taking these tests, but then again, filler qualifies as content. And a post is a post, no?

Alright, y’all deserve better. It’s coming. I can feel it.

UPDATE: Hmm, I just realized that when I had LTG scanned, it would have included the quoted portions from other sources. Maybe I just dumbed them down with my own words. Well, as long as you as you keep coming back, who cares if I write at a TV Guide level….

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