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Word of the Day: Pictogram/Pictograph
As we all know, the Summer Olympics are coming to Tokyo in 2020.
The Japanese government has begun trying to create pictograms that people from all countries will be able to understand.
A pictogram or pictograph communicates information through pictures.
Even if you are in a foreign country and cannot understand or read the language, you can understand the information in a pictogram.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 9th-grade education (age 15).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 59.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.