So, yesterday I discovered this java thingie that runs a text through the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Tests.

Now, the Flesch-Kincaid tests are basically algorithms that express through a number the readability and the grade level of a text.

It has been pointed out that the numbers may have a less than intuitive value – writing at a grade level of 4 does not mean that you are writing “for fourth graders”, in other words.
Hemingway scored a full 4, after all, in terms of grade level.

So, of course, I found the app, I ran my texts through it.
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