Sivin Kit’s Garden

The Blog Readability Test

14 11 2007

After testing this blog, the results are above. I kind of knew I was never really sophisticated with words

I tried it out of some of my regular reads, and most came out at high school level. I decided to test out the following blogs.

Jesus Creed surprised me with the following, who said scholars can’t write simply for ordinary folk:

I tried out two Malaysian scholars ..

I was not surprised when Krisis & Praxis got this:

But Kar Yong at the homilia of a budding NT scholar send me rolling on the floor laughing:

Finally, I decided to try out my new friend Dean of a Theological seminary Dion Forster in South Africa and the results are:

What does all this mean?

14 11 2007: wahlau (00:13:33) :

hehe, mine got junior high.

time to brush up my lingo, perhaps?
14 11 2007: Dion Forster (04:23:10) :

Wohoo!!! I am clearly doing something right if my writing is simple enough for school student to understand!… either that, or I’m not so clever

Thanks for the mention Sivin! This is a lot of fun. I have rated a few blogs myself.

Just for interest I fed in a few URL’s for academic articles and posts that I have made in the academy - it seems that NOTHING I write is more than high school material! ha ha!

Blessings,

Dion
14 11 2007: kar yong (09:12:37) :

Haha….I think the results are done randomly…..genius for my blog’s readability? - that’s totally unbelievable. Else it means my writing is so terrible that no one understands my terrible English that sounds more like Greek or Chinese, or…!!??
20 11 2007: Bob Robinson (11:56:47) :

Yikes! Do I really write so pompously?