Bullfighter diagnosis on post (was Re: Writing Corrective Actions for customers?)

[Tim Mantyla <TimMantyla -at- nustep -dot- com>]

Gentlemen,

FWIW, the Bullfighter gives Ned a composite score of 8.8 out of 10 for 
this composition, and 63 out of 100 on the Flesch reading index, as 
convoluted as it sounds. 

Its verbal diagnosis: "Mostly clear, with some unnecessarily long words 
and sentences. You get to the point, although with an occasional detour. 
Most educated readers will navigate the text with no difficulty. Longer 
words and sentences appear occasionally."

Perfect scores of 10 and 100, respectively, would rate this diagnosis: 
"Clear. You get to the point. Short sentences describe key thoughts 
concisely. Readers of all levels can focus on the message rather than 
finding their way through difficult text. The good Dr. Flesch would be 
proud of you."

This is a fun app. Find it at www.fightthebull.com.


--Tim 

Ned Bedinger wrote on 04/22/2008 02:00:00 AM:

> The question was about a corporate client, and the apparent context was 
> that of a freelancer.  Freelancers, since you seem to lack the concept, 
> have discretion in the work they accept.
> 
> Where one gets off dumping on people who preserve their freedonm in this 

> regard is something you'll have to explain to me, unless your egregious 
> offensiveness is intended.  You three sound like unreconstructed 
> bottom-feeders and tyrants.

> Please spend your efforts getting a clue instead of defacing the list 
> with these self-absorbed self-congratulatory public, offensive, and 
> apparently ignorant comments.
> 
> I yield the balance of my time to anyone else whpo wants to bash back on 

> these pompous twits.
> 
> Ned Bedinger
> doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com

> Ned Bedinger wrote on 22/04/2008 10:00:34 AM:
> > Where one gets off dumping on people who preserve their freedonm in 
this 
> 
> > regard is something you'll have to explain to me, unless your 
egregious 
> > offensiveness is intended.  You three sound like unreconstructed 
> > bottom-feeders and tyrants.
> 
> I'm a tyrant because I think it reasonable to assign a tech 
communications 
> task to a tech communicator?
> 
> As for the first sentence above, I can't make heads or tails of it. You 
> may be having a bad day or, alternatively, you could be chronically 
> incapable of constructing a coherent sentence. If the latter, that would 

> be something you should be working on while you're celebrating your 
> "freedom".
> 
> -- 
> Mike West
> Melbourne, Australia

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