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I sent this thing off without thinking about it first. What I should
^^^^^^
have written here is most formulas use English as the language from
which you gather readability statistics. So, perhaps these formulas make
sense for native English-speaking audiences (I don't think so, but you
might), but they make no sense when applied to other languages.
On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Nancy Hoft wrote:
> The other limitation with Readability statistics is that most of these
> formulas were developed in the United States and are, IMHO, culturally
> biased.
