Sunday, November 18, 2007

It's not a good thing, really...

[Oops! There was originally a link here with a graphic claiming that the text of this blog is written at college level or thereabouts, but I guess the web site went away, and it now takes you to some generic filler site with advertising.]

It really isn't. If you want to communicate, especially to an international audience such as populates SL, you want people to concentrate on the ideas, not on keeping track of subordinate clauses other grammatical caper-cutting. If I had the time... yes, like whoever it was (St. Exupery?), I lack the time to make this short... I'd run the text through the kind of complexity measuring code the above link uses to rate the prose, and rewrite to a high school level. The goal is communication, not showing off one's command of sentence structure.

Thanks to Lillie Yifu at 2nd Sex for her blog entry pointing at the rating service.

1 comment:

Lillie Yifu said...

And ability to talk about sex in a fourth grade vocabulary...