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Word of the Day: Catch-22
A Catch-22 is a situation with no solution, or you can’t win.
The classic catch-22 situation many people find themselves in is that to get a job, they need experience, but to get the experience, they need to get a job, and so on.
There is no solution.
My own catch-22 is my mother-in-law’s birthday.
If I forget her birthday, she will get angry because she thinks it means that I don’t love her anymore, but if I remember her birthday, she gets upset because I am pointing out that she is now getting older.
Either way, she gets angry, and I’m stuck in a catch-22 situation.
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 73.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.