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Bureaucracy score
3/10
New Employee
Picking up the habits. Still recoverable.
Where it came from
- Buzzwords
- 1+1.7
- Passive voice
- 0
- Hedging
- 0
- Actual meaning
- 29%+1.3
1 recognised phrase from the glossary.
Someone is doing the doing.
No escape hatches.
29% 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
21% of these words are jargon
This will need to go to the before we can proceed.
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 AIThis will need to go to the architecture review board before we can proceed. In practice: "enterprise architecture review board" means a committee that reviews proposed systems against government-wide architecture direction before they are allowed to proceed..
- Confidence
- Medium confidenceWe recognised 1 glossary term, but the sentence-level rewrite is rule-based rather than written by a person. Compare it with the original.
- Readability
- 72→35 roughly as easy to read as the original. Approximate measure only.
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