A comparison of reading levels...

[doc_strange]

Chicagotribune.com ...

Suntimes.com ...

My home page came up genius, but then I throw around a lot of anthropolomologicolatical wordnesses.

Comments

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Yes. Linguistic bombasticism is fantabulistic. ;)

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

And www.nytimes.com ?

[ivy]

Hahahaha! My blog (also Genius) beats the New York Times for abstruseness? Somehow I doubt it.

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I suspect what's being processed is the story summaries on the "front page" of the site.

Seems useful to me as a tool for checking the level of writing in a document... when you're supposed to be writing at a certain level. [Insert jokes about various audiences here.]