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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 17:36:17 GMT -5
simbon.madpage.com/Fog/Just paste in your novel. The number is based on a series of standards and supposedly gives you the schooling requirement to read the pasted text. Most on NaNo range from 4 (US 5th grade education, assuming kindergarden) to 9 (10th, respectively). There are no real pros or cons of higher or lower numbers. You don't want a novel that's overly-simple, yet you obvious want it to be readable. So there's no "good" score or "bad" score. Mine: 
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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 17:49:37 GMT -5
Tested a few novels I had on my computer in text files:
The first chapter of Moby Dick got a 10.80.
The first three chapters of A Song of Ice and Fire got 5.823.
Chapter one of The Fellowship of the Ring got 7.183.
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Nov 18, 2009 17:56:35 GMT -5
So, you're somewhere between Fellowship of the Ring, and Moby Dick. . . Least I know it won't be a boring read.  |
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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 17:59:49 GMT -5
So, you're somewhere between Fellowship of the Ring, and Moby Dick. . . Least I know it won't be a boring read. Pretty close to Fellowship, yeah. Thought Song of Ice and Fire is, from what I hear, hardly a -boring- read, yet the language is apparently very simplistic. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Nov 18, 2009 18:01:50 GMT -5
That's more along the lines of what I meant.
Part of what makes reading entertaining for me is the word usage and sentence structure and the more mechanical bits; not just the story. So, looking at just the mechanical bits, it's looks promising.
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 18, 2009 18:04:59 GMT -5
Heh. Bel-Gonows - which is definitely a YA (young adult) book  The Gunning Fog index is 7.070 The number of major punctuation marks, eg. [.], was 3354 The number of words was 40488 The number of 3+ syllable words, highlighted in blue, was 2269 |
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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 18:10:29 GMT -5
If you compare your scores and mine, you can see that the big difference came in 3+ syllable words. Otherwise, they were damn close.
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 18, 2009 18:13:15 GMT -5
If you compare your scores and mine, you can see that the big difference came in 3+ syllable words. Otherwise, they were damn close. Didn't realize how close the punctuation was cool! Fingers crossed I put it all in the right place - lulz! We should put the Twilight-dribble through it ... but it'd probably break. Does it have a pre-school option? |
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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 18:16:33 GMT -5
Twilight excerpt got 7.641.
It's mechanical, not a matter of the writing itself. It doesn't judge quality.
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 18, 2009 18:19:30 GMT -5
How. The. Fuck? lol.
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 18, 2009 18:20:34 GMT -5
6.540
Punctuation: 3862
Words: 40156
3+ syllable words: 2390
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 18, 2009 18:21:16 GMT -5
I'm confused...
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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 18:25:04 GMT -5
6.540 Punctuation: 3862 Words: 40156 3+ syllable words: 2390 >.> You didn't have as few 3+ syllable words as Ref but had a -lot- more punctuation than either of us. That means generally simpler, shorter sentences. |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 18, 2009 18:27:10 GMT -5
6.540 Punctuation: 3862 Words: 40156 3+ syllable words: 2390 >.> You didn't have as few 3+ syllable words as Ref but had a -lot- more punctuation than either of us. That means generally simpler, shorter sentences. ... But they're not... I use commas! |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Nov 18, 2009 18:30:09 GMT -5
Then you have long confusing sentences?
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