Reading Comprehenshun

[yendi]

Holly Golightly -- the wife of Jim Balent, not the character played by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's -- on her hubby's work:

"He doesn’t write down to an 8th grade level- he is creating for grown-ups. "

Fair enough.

So, I figured I'd put that to the test.

I went to a nice page that analyzes text.

And I fed in the line, Samantha Brown! You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!

(As seen in Tarot.)

For the record, the highest grade level listed was 8.1. The average was 4.0.

Comments

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

We did not say that line nearly often enough this weekend.

[yendi]

That's obviously because there weren't many fourth graders there.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

But YOUR VAGINA IS HAUNTED.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Couldn't he be writing up to an 8th grade level? Maybe that's what she meant...

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

Any idea what the typical reading level is for adults in the United States? Eighth grade sounds about right.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

I realise it's not the point of the post, but...

Her name is really Holly Golightly?