Analysts: Sarah Palin Writes at an 8th-grade Level

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QuintanarooBoy (81 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Jun-13-11 01:34 PM
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Analysts: Sarah Palin Writes at an 8th-grade Level
   
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 2tor Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.

"However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5."

http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/06/13/sarah-palin-writing...

Apparently, corporate CEOs average even lower writing scores. Kinda/sorta/buevista makes you think that we're ****ed, doesn't it?
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1288460

Now it makes sense why the left gets everything wrong when it comes to Palin. She writes on a level too advanced for these clowns.

How in the hell can anyone really judge a reading level based on emails?
Most people just type out quick responses and hit send. It's not like an email is a term paper for Pete's sake.

What it boils down too, is they didn't find plans to a death star so they have to come up with someway to blast her, so they pull this stunt.

Besides we see the posts from people at DU, who claim to be teachers, the grammar, punctuation, and the rules for capitalizing letters are not followed.

[Gina]

I am trippin' out how much they are obsessed with her.   I thought BDS was bad

[delilahmused]

I heard if you write her emails backwards you get a message from satan.

Cindie

[thundley4]

Most of Obama's speeches are given at an 8-9 grade level.  He's soooooooo much smarter than Sarah, right DUmmies?

[Splashdown]

If some newspaper editors still argue that plain language cannot be expressive and vigorous, they should look at what novelists can do with it. These top-selling U.S. authors all write at the 7th-grade level:
•John Grisham
•Tom Clancy
•Michael Crichton
•Stephen King
•Clive Cussler
•Mary Renault
•Frank McCourt
•Arthur Golden

link

[Mike220]

Most of Obama's speeches are given at an 8-9 grade level.  He's soooooooo much smarter than Sarah, right DUmmies?

That's just cause he's trying to speak to the stupid Rethugs. [/DU]

[Ralph Wiggum]

Does anyone else remember how Algore talked during the debates in 2000?  He was completely talking down to the audience in such a condescending fashion that he was roundly ridiculed.  And that was about a second grade level.

[mamacags]

When I was in journalism school we were told to write at a 3rd grade level so all readers could understand the articles.  BFD on an 8th grade level.  Joe Biden probably has been bitching because he had to hire someone to explain the emails to him.

[TVDOC]

When I was in journalism school we were told to write at a 3rd grade level so all readers could understand the articles.  BFD on an 8th grade level.  Joe Biden probably has been bitching because he had to hire someone to explain the emails to him.

I was just gonna post that the the average US newspaper (with the exception of the WSJ) is written at a 5th grade reading level......

And the papers are behind this witch hunt.  Rocks and glass houses.......

doc

[GOBUCKS]

It's hard to write at a higher level using your thumbs on a tiny Blackberry.

[BlueStateSaint]

So, then . . . the TOTUS is at a 2nd-grade level, then?

[thelaughingman]

"I'm a centrist Democrat, and would have loved to support my hunch that Ms. Palin is illiterate," said 2tor Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.

"However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5."

So given the man's unabashed bias against her, I guess we can safely bump up her actual writing level by at least a grade or two.

[Karin]

Half the DUmmies were fair over there, and half just made lame jokes or snarky remarks, such as stupid Cleita.  This nameless faceless DUmmie (TrogL or something) said

Didn't Einstein say "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

I like that.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I heard if you write her emails backwards you get a message from satan.

Cindie

.taht yrt ot evah ot gniog m'I. ?yllaeR

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

14th post bump

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds:

apples and oranges (679 posts)      Tue Jun-14-11 08:57 PM
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Grammar nazis: O'Really just said Obama used the wrong grammar in his NBC interview  
President Obama said in his NBC interview,"If it was me, I would resign." And O'Really corrected him saying it should be, "If it were me." Which one is right? I think it could go either way, couldn't it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1297613

[I_B_Perky]

This is from the English majors at the dump?  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! My Mother, the English Teacher Creature from Hell, would burn those morons over there a new ass on the proper usage of grammar. Hades' Fire!!!! She burns me a new ass every time I send her an email. She sends it back corrected in red. God forbid she ever decides to get text messages. I think she would have a heart attack. 

My 2 cents is this:  If you ain't writing a research or some other formal paper who really gives a shit? You get your point across in a fast manner in an email.

[GOBUCKS]

O'Reilly is right, of course.
But the muslim would clean his clock in Swahili.

[JohnnyReb]

Never write or speak at a higher level than the DUmmies you're trying to communicate with.

She should drop down to about third grade level.

[LC EFA]

DUmmies like to think that their use of polysyllabic words and complicated grammar makes them look more smarterer <sic>.

All it does in reality is make them look like an out of depth idiot.

 

[miskie]

DUmmies like to think that their use of polysyllabic words and complicated grammar makes them look more smarterer <sic>.

All it does in reality is make them look like an out of depth idiot.
 

They enjoy using five dollar words, and inventing some of their own - example -

I have never come across the phrase 'well and truly screwn' until I read DU. - I'm not even sure if that could be considered a colloquialism, such as 'yins' in Pittsburghese , 'bubbler' in Southie, or 'cabinet' in Rhode Islander..