Fighting Outside My Weight Class

Posted 19 November, 2007 in Uncategorized |

According to this site, which rates the reading levels of blogs, you need a postgraduate education (which, ironically, your humble correspondent does not possess) to understand my blog.

Apparently Whitlock’s blog is written at a genius level. I figure the Giller coverage bumped me out of the “genius” category. Or maybe it’s my repeated use of the word “assmonkeys.”

[UPDATE: It would indeed appear that, as of December 3, 2007, my site has been downgraded to a high school reading level from a postgrad college reading level. This is distressing news. I’m clearly going to have to resort to more subordinate clauses and latinate phraseology in the future to get my old rating back. (I’d love to know what kind of algorithm they use to determine a site’s reading level. Is it something like v / a x ge = r, where v = latinate words like “vicissitudes,” a = juvenile vocab like “assmonkeys,” ge = spelling and grammar errors, and r = reading level? Or is it, as I suspect, entirely arbitrary?)]

8 comments to “Fighting Outside My Weight Class”

Nathan, November 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pm:

• I can think of another reason, Steven – but then, I am a genius, while you, apparently, just fool around with truncated rockets, atoms, and dirty condoms.

Steven W. Beattie, November 19th, 2007 at 1:50 pm:

• I think that’s a test tube, genius.

Nathan, November 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm:

• Oh thanks, Einstein.

Panic, November 19th, 2007 at 5:34 pm:

• Ha! Mine comes up at a Jr High level.
  Which proves my point about my not being able to do critical analysis anymore.

  “I liked this book because the characters were good, and the story was good, and the cover was good, but not in America, where covers are bad. Also, Janie totally stole my boyfriend and I’m like, really mad, ok?”

  (Though I ran Eckler’s blog through it for a laugh, and got the expected result…)

Zachariah Wells, November 24th, 2007 at 3:00 pm:

• Man, I’m postgrad too. Guess I should’ve stayed in school, if only to be able to parse my own musings…

Steven W. Beattie, November 24th, 2007 at 5:17 pm:

• Zach, you’re postgrad? I felt sure that you’d come out a genius. I guess Nathan’s got us both beat …

Matt, December 2nd, 2007 at 4:54 pm:

• Sorry to let you know but you have dropped to needing a highschool education to understand your blog. It must have been the extra “assmonkey” you used in your post.

Steven W. Beattie, December 2nd, 2007 at 8:13 pm:

• Damn!! For God’s sake, don’t tell Nathan!

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