Sarah Palin writes like an eighth grader
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Sarah Palin writes like an eighth grader
Sarah Palin is finally coming to terms with herself, or at the least, her ability, or lack thereof to think like an educated human who aspires to be president of the United States of America. The news is out and much more will come as the emails surface and the silliness of Sarah the Palin reaches the surface for all to see:
The huge cache of Sarah Palin’s emails released Friday offered not only a chance to see what she was writing about during her uncompleted term as Alaska’s governor, but also an opportunity to see how well she writes.
AOL Weird News brought samples to two writing analysts who independently evaluated 24,000 pages of the former governor’s emails. They came back in agreement that Palin composed her messages at an eighth-grade level, an excellent score for a chief executive, they said.
“I’m a centrist Democrat, and would have loved to support my hunch that Ms. Palin is illiterate,” said John Katzman.
“However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5.
Now that’s impressive sports fans! Sarah the Palin, a presidential wannabe, can’t even write like a high schooler. What do you think about Sarah Palin’s lack of ability to read, write or do arithmetic?
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I randomly selected an article in this blog and ran it through Blue Centauri’s writing analysis tool. I came up a 3.85 grade level.
I’m curious Joe. Which article did you run through this no doubt extremely valid tool for measuring writing levels? Although I’m tempted, I won’t call you an idiot.
Mike-
Are you intentionally ignorant or are you just stupid? Did you read the whole article? Do you have any idea of what the test that was used actually measures?
Normal everyday writing that surpasses 8th grade is exceptional. The article’s writer only managed an 8.8 for an edited piece that he was getting paid to write.
I don’t know how you would know what the author of the news summary scored, or would score, or even if he or she was getting paid. Regardless you write:
“Normal everyday writing that surpasses 8th grade is exceptional.”
Thanks for that little gem of wisdom, although I knew that. The fact is I want exceptional in our president and Sarah the Palin is far from that.
Finally it is not necessary to insult people here. If your snide remarks had been directed at anyone but me I would have deleted your comment.
Most on-line and print publications are written for the masses, that means they are written at an 8th to 10th grade level. If newspapers or magazines get too wordy, falling readership follows. Read an academic or scholarly publication, be sure to have a dictionary on hand.
You make a great point about length. I visit several blogs and web magazines like this one and if the article is too long I might glance at it, but I don’t read the whole thing because there is so much more left to look at. As for the level of email writing I probably write at an 8th grade level. I find some rather pretentious in their mails and I don’t like that.
Further down in the report, it says that Palin actually does better than most CEO’s. I’m afraid this is more indicative of the online world as a whole and the general ignorance of our native language.
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but most e-mails are written at a very low level. That’s kind of the point of e-mail – no one’s writing philosophical treatises through gmail. I seriously doubt anyone’s e-mail correspondence ranks much higher than an “8th grade level” in terms of readability.
I was thinking the same thing. My knee-jerk response was to take this as yet another indicator of Palin’s intelligence level, but then I was struck with the unsettling uncertainty about how my own Blackberry-composed emails might stack up.
Then again, since I don’t have any writing analysts looking at my emails, I suppose I might as well enjoy the thought that this may provide further indication that Palin falls somewhere below “high school freshmen” on the social hierarchy.
Unsurprising. She speaks like a wannabe adult, too.