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Word of the Day: Chock-a-block
The junk shop display window in the picture accompanying today’s post is chock-a-block with decorative cookie tins.
If you haven’t guessed it yet, today’s word of the day means that something is full of people or stuff.
Luckily, I live in the countryside of Japan, and crowding is never a problem here.
My experience of Japan is entirely different from that of someone living in a big city such as Tokyo, Osaka, or even Nagoya.
In those large cities, the trains during rush hour are chock-a-block with people.
A few trains may be full here in Wakayama, but it’s nothing like in Tokyo.
Whether that’s a good thing or not depends on your point of view.
Quite often, people are their own worst enemies.
If everyone wants to live in the city, then overcrowding is going to be a side effect of that.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 68.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.