[dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless

On 2012-11-04 11:31 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> "Our book" ?
>
> Jim

http://www.artfulsoftware.com/

PB

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> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless
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> On 2012-11-04 8:58 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>> Recently I came upon the following sentence, which reminded me of why I
>> dreamed of becoming a writer; but sadly, never achieved such exquisite
>> sculpture as this:
>>
>> The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a
>> large population of people, often with well-developed literary and
>> scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to
>> undertake analytical thought.
>>
>> -- Peter Medawar
> Interesting.
> http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
> gives that sentence a Fox Index of 27.
>
> The Fog Index is said to indicate the number of years of formal
> education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text
> on first reading. Many decades ago, a secretary (yep, that long ago) was
> quietly cursing a paper she was typing into the computer. When she was
> done, I put it through that year's version of the Fog Index. It said
> understanding the paper would require 82 years of education.
>
> By way of contrast, the first para of our book, which you wrote, gets a
> Fog Index of 10. Seems you accomplished your goal.
>
> PB
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>
>> Arthur
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