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Word of the Day: Line-dried
If you walk around Japan, you do not have to go far before you see clothing drying on a clothesline.
Local news even informs people when it is a good day for line-dried clothing.
Well, actually, the Japanese do not use a clothesline.
They use a clothes pole, but that is neither here nor there.
Of course, if we are in the rainy season or a hurry, we must use a dryer, but clothing does not get that line-dried smell from a dryer.
We can call it the smell of the sun or a fresh air smell.
Yeah, line-dried (or pole-dried, I suppose) clothing has a fresh smell, especially in the summer.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 77.
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