19 October 2007

For Love of The Dance

I'm going to shoot myself. This week, anyway., Something called websitegrader rated the readability of this blog:

Readability Level : Advanced Degree (PhD)

This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content.

On the other hand, I guess that confers a certain intelligence—hell, if U can read this, U R a Ph D.

Or, hey, this is a good bet: All that miserable Jakob Nielsen Chunk your Content crap has bred a nation of chunk-inhalers. Who do not read but ...engorge. Snake-like. Take in the content perfectly whole, because the jawbones of the mind come easily unhinged. Whether that rat-shaped bulge will actually be digested ... is anybody's guess.

The English sentence is a lovely, intricate dance, one that emanates meaning as richly as a lover's deep look.

With every period and comma ... those marks for the human pause, the human breath.

When the language goes, I go too.

COMMMENTS

madame 8:13:00 AM

tried it. "failed to retreive page content of http://lavachequilit.typepad.com/" probably just an information collection farm so they can sell your details somewhere else. my paranoid two pence.

Zo 1:27:00 PM

no no no, dear, it's FTypepad, don't you know.

i can't even get the little icon thingey for snap shots to show up for typepad people on my blogroll.

what is it with the trotts anyway. can't something just work.

xxx

Shelley 1:51:00 PM

I gather you have to register to get the readability of your site.

I would think that PhD level readability is a compliment, for your content and for your readers.

Zo 1:53:00 PM

Oh it is, it is. \

All, what, six of us.