I found this neat little readability test applet a few minutes ago, and decided to test my BSing skills. Result:
Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
Gunning Fog index : 42.93
Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text :
Coleman Liau index : 44.67
Flesh Kincaid Grade level : 38.51
ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 39.93
SMOG : 29.83
Flesch Reading Ease : -138.30
Am I good or what? And by ‘good’, I really mean ‘bad’. Although my scores would be a couple of points lower if I hadn’t started using Word’s thesaurus (which ususally only jogged my memory instead of providing me with the words themselves).
Oh, you wanna know what I wrote?
Not a single word under three syllables, and it makes some sense.