Blog Readability Test?
I saw this “badge” on another blog and decided to check it out. When I entered the URL for this blog it returned the code to embed here to produce this:
I found that encouraging, because I have often been criticized for my verbosity and penchant for fifty-cent words. It seemed implausible, however, and I noticed that my last entry was the simple one regarding my new hardware; so I tried it again using the URL for my “About Thoughts Aloud” page. This returned:
Come on… OK, how about my serious essay on Sovereign Rights? This returned:
Ouch! I guess I wasted my time with that one! How many geniuses am I going to entice to read it? I tried several more and a few of the longer posts I have made. They all came out as Jr. High School, High School, or:
Finally, I retested a few of them to confirm that it is consistent, and not just generating a random output. If this thing has any validity, I am pleased; for that means my writing is readable by most nominally educated folks, even if they occasionally need to use a dictionary. 🙂
You can try out your own blog, or just about any webpage, by clicking on any of the above images; they all take you to the same test. â—„Daveâ–º
Hi Dave…..Mary and I have decided we miss you terribly and would like to reconnect. that is, if you will be nice to us, not mean and agree with what we say….lol.
Anyway, I agreed to try to connect and see where it goes. Let me know if you are interested in welcoming us back to the fold.
Regards,
Larry
WOW! Hi Larry! I’ll admit that I miss you guys and our fireside chats too. That period was undoubtably my most enjoyable online experience. The cool thing is that I remember most the comraderie and banter, not the tiffs. I honestly cannot even remember what our falling out was over, Larry. I do remember Mary had issues with my sweeping generalities and chauvinism. 🙂
Yes! I would love to reconstitute the group and let bygones be bygones. Troy and John (Daedalus) are already here, so jump right in. I promise to try to be kinder and gentler. If this blog format doesn’t work for us, I could even fire up a ‘Reasonable Rationals’ forum again. Give Mary my best and I look forward to hearing from both of you. â—„Daveâ–º
OK..Dave I’m in and Mary is on the way. I subscribed but is there some other process in addition?
Sure, let’s give it a whirl again. There certainly is a dearth of intelligent discourse out there in the blogosphere. As Larry has already discovered though, I’ve moved even further to the right. I might be down right unrecognizable!
Where to begin …?
Dave and everyone….since I came on this forum I have realized that my ability to process thoughts thru my brain to my fingers to produce those thoughts on the forum has diminished to an extent greater than I had imagined.
Hopefully, the more I participate, the more my former capabilities will, perhaps, re-surface. I will keep trying for a while with that hope I can contribute to rational discussion of issues. In the meantime, I ask that you cut me a bit of slack. At some point, if things don’t improve, I may pull the plug.
BTW, my previous post regarding my current capacity does make a point about this forum. I have participated in some others recently where I did not recognize my current limits. It is only when I began to read the quality posts here that I became concerned.