Comments on: About offensiveness http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/09/28/about-offensiveness/ "A man needn't go far to find a subject, if he's ready with his salt-box."--Uncle Pumblechook Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:43:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: jbj http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/09/28/about-offensiveness/#comment-2503 jbj Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:13:49 +0000 http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/09/28/about-offensiveness/#comment-2503 I can see that. Deliberate obfuscation probably drives up the level of *most* academic writing . . . I can see that. Deliberate obfuscation probably drives up the level of *most* academic writing . . .

]]> By: Tom http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/09/28/about-offensiveness/#comment-2452 Tom Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:49:24 +0000 http://www.jbj.wordherders.net/2007/09/28/about-offensiveness/#comment-2452 This week the spam filter caught two replies to emails that I sent. One was an out-of-office reply from a service engineer and the other was a scientist in Russia. Both were flagged as spam. BTW, I enjoyed your critique of using MS Word Flesch-Kincaid scores. What I've found is that the grade level for most scientific journals is skewed by multisyllabic words and long descriptive sentences. This week the spam filter caught two replies to emails that I sent. One was an out-of-office reply from a service engineer and the other was a scientist in Russia. Both were flagged as spam.

BTW, I enjoyed your critique of using MS Word Flesch-Kincaid scores. What I’ve found is that the grade level for most scientific journals is skewed by multisyllabic words and long descriptive sentences.

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