You may have come across software solutions that score text for readability. Often, the scores are based on the Flesch-Kincaid (F-K) system.
Yet at an F-K of 65.88, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix rates close to Moby Dick at 57.9, which seems peculiar.
Whatever happened to engagement, emotion, peril, revelation, surprise…? In the original Terminator movie, Arnie says around 100 words. How does ‘menacing’ rate on a scoring system?
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