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Interesting! I didn’t know there were such things as readability meters. I found it interesting the things my editor would point out – in one case I have a cloisonne vase beeing used as a weapon. She pointed out that readers that didn’t know that cloisonne is enameled metal would wonder why the vase didn’t smash when it hit the door. I would have never picked up on that.
Editors and readability meters are awesome things since technology hasn’t advanced far enough (yet) to take the tales directly from our minds ;p but when and if that happens will we need writers anymore? We are the mediums between the world of fiction and this one… if everyone could translate we’d become obsolete.
But…. that’s another discussion entirely. Thanks for another thought provoking post!
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Angela, what a great example with the vase!
As far as technological readability tools, the underlying parameters are mostly based on word complexity, length, and number of syllables—perhaps “adequate” but not necessarily “sufficient”…
And, I doubt tech will ever advance to the point where human writers become unnecessary.
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Authors of student textbooks should use such tools. I remember several occations when after reading a page I felt I knew less (!) than before. Readability in German depends mostly on sentence structure. Marc Twain wasn’t the only one to complain. Our flexible sentence structure allows sentences that only the native speaker’s intuition (Noam Chomsky) or being gifted with logic thinking can make sense of. “Literature” with a capital L often uses language that is very low on readabilty. Apparently, that’ s a sign for quality … ;-)
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Martina,
Perhaps it’s only certain kinds of “literature”…
I just put the first and second scene from Macbeth into the Readability Tool and got better scores than that scene from my book :-)
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Of course it’s only certain kinds of “literature”.
What is considered art or literature and what would come under the term paraliterature of one of your previous posts depends on cultural definitions. In Germany, even today authors are compared to Goethe and Schiller. Their language was difficult for their contemporaries and is even more so for readers today. The standard for the label “literature” is absence of readability. Only the self-styled elite is able to read real literature. According to this definition most people simply read trash.
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It’s interesting you say, “The standard for the label ‘literature’ is absence of readability.”.
I’m pretty sure you’re giving the “accepted” “cultural” (possibly, “German”) standard, right?
Though, if I were to accept that standard and if I had complete faith in the Readability Tool, then my writing would be more literary than Shakespeare :-)
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This is the “German” standard. What we call in “New-German” the establishment claims the right to define art and literature. I’m afraid my writing is readable, at least according to my reviewers ;-)
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Good for you, Martina :-)
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Great tool! Although very subjective I see a use for it and bookmarked it.
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Very interestng site. I bookmarked it just for a reference point to see if I am wandering off somehow. I mainly had good readability scores, but what I found interesting is the Grade level at which I write. I put in several different genres, and found that I stay in the same area of readership. this is whether I am writing Science Fiction, or something intended for young adults. I also haven’t change much over the years. I wonder if this is true for a lot o writers, or does it fluctuate according to what specifically they are writing at the time. While subjective, as stated above, it is very interesting for some aspects of self-study. Thank you for the link.
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Yes, Jacob, a tool derived from “objective” parameters organized in “subjective” ways :-)
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Well, Barbara, I find it interesting that you’ve taken a rather “subjective” tool and applied it to your writing in a most objective manner :-)
I hope a few more readers do what you did and report their findings here !
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