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Word of the Day: Newfangled
Today’s word is often used negatively.
If a person calls something newfangled, they mean it’s unnecessary or an unrequired change to something already working well.
For example, someone could say, ‘I don’t understand all these newfangled sharing apps. I remember when everyone was on Facebook, things were much simpler!’
When I used newfangled in explaining the expression the best thing since sliced bread, I was trying to be funny.
Honestly, I really would like to see some fashionable wearable technology.
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 58.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
