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AAARRGGGGGH!AAARRGGGGGH!AAARRGGGGGH!
If you want a laugh, read this ... the Minister of Education being questioned in parliament about primary schools in Christchurch (the city that was badly damaged by earthquakes)
https://dimpost.wordpress.com/2012/1...nslated-redux/
The Gunning-Fog index is a commonly used algorithm to determine the readability of English writing. (Details on the wiki page here. See also the comments section.) I wrote a perl script that reads in Hansard transcripts from Question Time and looks for sentences that score an 18 on Gunning-Fog, which ranks as incomprehensible, and then replaced that sentence with the word AAARRGGGGGH! Here’s how Hekia Parata’s most recent oral question plays out....
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