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hmmm….

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Does that mean I’m an officially deprogrammed PhD? Or does it mean my PhD might be revoked? I hope not. After all, what’s the point of writing if no one can read it, right?!

(I got the link to the meter from brownfemipower, where there is also a nice discussion in comments of the readability scale and its implications.)

One nugget from wikipedia:
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First the fashion chain Zara, now army barracks? It’s so hard not to be conspiratorial. Perhaps this is all prophesying the rise of an army of fascist fashionistas, who distract us with handbags and mesmerize us with falling hemlines as civilizations are razed in our name?

Oh wait. Never mind.

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ummm, uh-oh

So I came to one of these calculators through grammarpiano, via koreanish. I was going to find out my “blog rating,” which is by the way:

Online Dating

Okay, saw that coming. That’s how I roll, whatever. But sadly, my obsession with self-assessment then led me to this calculator: Read the rest of this entry »

…’cause it’s a LifeGem!?

Am I wrong for liking this? Or maybe more to the point, should Theory My Culture be afraid, fearing some sort of perverse reparations?

I love shiny men!

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