[lbo-talk] The changing complexity of congressional speech

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 25 07:08:43 PDT 2012


On May 25, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Wojtek S wrote:


> Chuck: "Consider that Orwell spent most of his time writing in
> extremely plain language. "
>
> [WS:] He wrote clearly, but I wound not say that he used plain
> language. Not an easy read for an average US 10th grader.

"Politics & the English Language" comes in at a 12.4 grade level.

Doug



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