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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 18, 2009 18:32:08 GMT -5
lol, Zovo! Same thing I thought - Run on sentences.
I've been trying to fix damn fragmented shit probably creating run on sentences. Massively been trying to cut down on colorful word pages. Blue, green and red squiggly lines.
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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 18:32:50 GMT -5
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! Over-using commas is still a sign of simpler sentences. "The clouds were big, fluffy, and white."
"The big clouds tumbled across the sky, fluffy and white."One sentence is shorter, but has two commas. One sentence is longer and only has one. All punctuation is a means of -shortening- a sentence. |
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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 18:33:56 GMT -5
Then you have long confusing sentences? If 'confusing' were an antonym of 'simple', yeah. Like I said, it's not good or bad to have a higher or lower score. |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 18, 2009 18:36:59 GMT -5
Then you have long confusing sentences? If 'confusing' were an antonym of 'simple', yeah. Like I said, it's not good or bad to have a higher or lower score. I was just confused... They're long, but not confusing. And Word agrees with all the non-dialogue ones. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Nov 18, 2009 18:41:25 GMT -5
The second comma is unnecessary. The "and" serves in it's place. ". . .big, fluffy and white."
Hence why I phrased it as a question.
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Post by Kaez on Nov 18, 2009 18:45:08 GMT -5
The second comma is unnecessary. The "and" serves in it's place. ". . .big, fluffy and white." Unnecessary but 100% grammatically correct, yes. |
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Post by James on Nov 18, 2009 19:08:26 GMT -5
The Gunning Fog index is 8.914
The number of major punctuation marks, eg. [.], was 711
The number of words was 11151
The number of 3+ syllable words, highlighted in blue, was 736
If I make that scale to Kaez's it becomes:
The number of major punctuation marks, eg. [.], was 2577
The number of words was 40340
The number of 3+ syllable words, highlighted in blue, was 2668
...Anthony probably doesn't help that...Or Benjamin actually.
So the higher the number, the less simple? ...Cause I always thought I wrote simple.
Edit: Lower...I know. I just sat an exam, shut up.
Edit #2: FUCK I WAS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.
/sleeps
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Post by James on Nov 18, 2009 19:15:12 GMT -5
lol, Zovo! Same thing I thought - Run on sentences. I've been trying to fix damn fragmented shit probably creating run on sentences. Massively been trying to cut down on colorful word pages. Blue, green and red squiggly lines. Word has forced me to learn more grammar and spelling than any English teachers. ... I hate messy lines on my work. So much. |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Nov 18, 2009 19:37:38 GMT -5
I was using OpenOffice before. It was like using a NotePad - awful. Hubby gave me the newest Word, which I moved my Novel to. Its like somebody threw colorful streamers all over my page  It is forcing me to improve. It's a good thing - just gaaah! Especially now that I see all my fragmented sentences. Boy do I love making those! |
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Post by Kaez on Nov 25, 2009 22:12:24 GMT -5
YAY!!! The -good- analyzer is finally back up from the load of NaNo'ers who crashed the server. textalyser.net/index.phpTurn minimum characters to 1, leave everything else where it is (yes, including 'number of words to analyze -- it doesn't work like you think it does). It takes a little time to load after you press 'Analyze', but once it does, a whole lot of awesome. 18.9 complexity 5.8 G-F readability 69 max-sentence 68.3 readability 'Wilam' is top word with 364. How about you all? |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 25, 2009 22:13:17 GMT -5
Mine's gonna go up in levels after editing... This much is obvious after the first pass of the prologue.
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Post by Kaez on Nov 25, 2009 22:16:57 GMT -5
Mine's gonna go up in levels after editing... This much is obvious after the first pass of the prologue. Oh, yeah, mine as well, I noticed that same thing. Put run it through there anyway. Let's have a look-see. |
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Post by James on Nov 25, 2009 22:20:21 GMT -5
18.9 complexity 5.8 G-F readability 69 max-sentence 68.3 readability 'Wilam' is top word with 364. 30.5 complexity 7.1 G-F readability 51 max-sentence 62.7 readability 'Colin' is top word with 199. I really don't understand how mine ends up being harder to read... |
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Post by WJChesek ((Evern)) on Nov 25, 2009 22:21:03 GMT -5
Pre-editing
Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) : (6-easy 20-hard) 5.5
Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : 17.4%
Max sentence length (words) : 59
Readability (Alternative) beta : (100-easy 20-hard, optimal 60-70) 68.2
Top word: You 526
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Post by Kaez on Nov 25, 2009 22:21:20 GMT -5
We may never figure it out. But yours consistently gets ranked harder to read than ours.
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It is forcing me to improve. It's a good thing - just gaaah! Especially now that I see all my fragmented sentences. Boy do I love making those!
