"The scores indicate that this was not Obama at his best, especially when attempting to make an emotional connection to the American people."
-Paul J.J. Payack, president of a company that analyzes word usage, was disappointed with President Obama's Oval Office address on Monday. The speech was written at a 10th grade level, and its 19.8 words per sentence "added some difficulty for his target audience."
Needz moar "Mission Accomplished!"
Take that with an enormous grain of fraud-flavored salt (as per Pareene):
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/06/17/fraud_linguist_cnn/index.html
OK, but the one thing I really don't get is how can you have nineteen point eight words per senten
I have always loved you.
FOG INDEX: 18. 95% of speeches are easier; 5% of speeches are harder
Complex words: 27%
Syllables per word: 2.2
Number of words per sentence: 19.8
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BOOOOOOO-ring! Nice work, Einstein. Hit the road, perfesser oily!
So, next time someone tells me I'm "sophomoric" I'm supposed to say "Thanks"?