Re:Standard Ebooks
by acabal on Sunday July 24, 2022 @02:52PM
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Using the Flesch-Kincaid scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...
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Re:Standard Ebooks
by BossingAround on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:00PM
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I wish there was a difficulty for non-native speakers. Flesch-Kincaid score does nothing for the majority of readers if it doesn't distinguish between Night and Day (Woolf) and Shakespeare's Coriolanus. From purely the language's perspectives, non-native speakers will struggle with Coriolanus much more due to outdated language.
Flesch-Kincaid makes little sense to me for books aimed at adults in general.