Found another neat tool today thanks to Omer Trajman over at WebWriting.
It is a tool that measures the vocabulary in your site (blog, website) and determines the grade level of education you must have to comprehend the content. The NY Times writes at an 8th grade level, and so does this blogger as you can see by the label above.
I tested a few of my fav sites and found them ranging from elementary level to college reading level!
Which begs the question: Which is better? Or does it matter?
When I was in the corporate world one of my peers talk and wrote using multi-syllabic words that frequently lost his audience. Why use a five syllable word when a one-syllable word works just as well?
If the goal is to be read and understood then unless you are writing for Word of the Day with a goal of challenging your readers, is it such a bad thing if you write at a lower level?
So do you want to have a site that uses elementary words but perhaps life altering thought; or a site that uses more sophisticated language but perhaps challenges some readers intellectually?
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