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Word of the Day: Trivial
Trivial things are considered to be not valuable and not necessary.
Sounds straightforward, right?
Well, it isn’t.
What you may feel is a trivial matter, others may think is life-changing.
Think about the frustrated businessman in the picture here.
It seems that he is having some business difficulties.
By the look on his face, whatever it is that’s bothering him is not a simple matter to him.
Let’s say it could be he doesn’t know how to print his documents on his printer over a Bluetooth connection.
For a computer-savvy person, connecting a computer to a printer via Bluetooth is trivial and as easy as ABC to solve.
For our analogue businessman, however, it is not a simple matter at all.
It will probably take him half the day.
Remember that trivial means something is not valuable or necessary, but the use of the word depends on the person.
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 66.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.