watch your lexical density

Recognise this? It's a tagcloud anaylsis of Steve Jobs' speech at Macworld created by the Seattle Post Intelligencer and detailed here.

And this is Bill Gates' at CES. Bill loves to say 'great'. Almost never says 'boom' though. Something like this might be a good way of making sure you're saying what you think you are. But perhaps more interesting, and certainly worth using to find out if you're writing understandble presentations are the language-assesment tools they found at UsingEnglish. You can probably imagine what lexical density means and wouldn't be surprised that Jobs had a lower score than BIll. But I thought the Gunning Fox Index was worth thinking about too.

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[Ben]

Here's a beautiful one of those concerning the latest State Of The Union speech.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html