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ravenI just worked out my Fog Index (thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_of_asheru).
I used a sample of writing from my livejournal.... part of yesterday's rant about Armistice Day, actually - and used it to work out that on average, I put 14 words in a sentence, and the percentage of words that are three syllables or more is 16 percent. Add these together, multiply by 0.4 and it appears I have a Fog Index of 12. This means that on average, a person needs twelve years of schooling to understand what I've written - which doesn't quite make sense, as I've only had eleven years of schooling myself. Anyway, my writing is more difficult to understand than the Wall Street Journal or Time, and double the difficulty of the Bible or the TV Guide.
I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing.
lady_of_asheru).I used a sample of writing from my livejournal.... part of yesterday's rant about Armistice Day, actually - and used it to work out that on average, I put 14 words in a sentence, and the percentage of words that are three syllables or more is 16 percent. Add these together, multiply by 0.4 and it appears I have a Fog Index of 12. This means that on average, a person needs twelve years of schooling to understand what I've written - which doesn't quite make sense, as I've only had eleven years of schooling myself. Anyway, my writing is more difficult to understand than the Wall Street Journal or Time, and double the difficulty of the Bible or the TV Guide.
I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing.
