YouTube / iTunes / Spotify / Radio Public / Pocket Casts / Google Podcasts / Breaker / Overcast
Listen to ArtisanEnglish.jp posts & lesson intros here.
Word of the Day: Cheeky
I have an interesting one for you today, everybody.
When someone is cheeky, they are respectfully rude.
Yes, you can be politely rude.
When people are cheeky, they usually joke around or are playful.
Imagine that your ageing father cannot find his newspaper.
He has looked all around and cannot see it at all.
Then he stands up and realizes that he is sitting on it.
In that kind of situation, what would you say?
I, myself, would say, ‘You’re not a spring chicken anymore. You must be getting old, skipper.’
Of course, the old fellow will get angry and tell me I am rude, but I am actually cheeky.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 77.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.