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Bureaucracy score

2/10

Mostly Harmless

Slightly stiff, but it says something.

Where it came from

Buzzwords
1+1.2

1 recognised phrase from the glossary.

Passive voice
0

Someone is doing the doing.

Hedging
0

No escape hatches.

Actual meaning
33%+0.8

33% of the words carry content. The rest is scaffolding.

Counted from the text, not estimated. The same sentence always scores the same. A playful measure of style, not a judgement of anyone who writes this way.

What you gave us

11% of these words are jargon

There's room in but not in the SWE.

Highlighted phrases are in our glossary. Select one for the definition. The darker the shade, the more bureaucratic the term.

  • Plain
  • Some government-speak
  • Maximum bureaucracy

Plain English

Rules, not AI

There's room in O&M but not in the SWE. (SWE = Salary Wage Envelope) In practice: "o&m" means operating money, the budget for running things, as opposed to salaries or capital..

Terms in this

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Confidence

Medium confidence

We recognised 1 glossary term, but the sentence-level rewrite is rule-based rather than written by a person. Compare it with the original.

Readability

100→62

Roughly as easy to read as the original. Approximate measure only.

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