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Old 02-06-2012, 03:25 PM
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Default Re: State of the Union registers at 8th grade reading level

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Originally Posted by crazyflamingos View Post
The sentences that you are using are, at the highest, about third grade level. So I fail to see the relevance of your analogy.
His example scored a 1.6 on the same scale they scored the President's speech.
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