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I wish there was a difficulty for non-native speakers. Flesch-Kincaid score does nothing for the majority of readers if it doesn't distinguish between Night and Day (Woolf) and Shakespeare's Coriolanus. From purely the language's perspectives, non-native speakers will struggle with Coriolanus much more due to outdated language.

Flesch-Kincaid makes little sense to me for books aimed at adults in general.



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