{"id":12332,"date":"2009-01-02T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/cloze.html"},"modified":"2009-01-02T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T08:30:31","slug":"cloze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/01\/02\/cloze.html","title":{"rendered":"Cloze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">In language teaching, a <b>cloze<\/b> test is a test in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The task of the learner is to fill each space with the missing word or a suitable word.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I recently read of a company that developed a font with holes in it. After some research it was decided that a certain quantity of carefully placed holes could be left in printed text while readability was maintained.<\/p>\n<p>The concept struck me as inane. Is there really an impending ink shortage in a world where publishers of all types have or will soon abandon print altogether for Internet and digital media? <\/p>\n<p>Targeting print media with new cost-saving technologies is a bit like inventing a better payphone, the payphone being a once omnipresent technology that will survive mostly on the margins of society. I don&#8217;t know if print media is doomed to a fate like the payphone, but I would think that any business whose income relies on money made from printed material is headed for hard times.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, in the interest of saving ink I have an alternate proposal. I say we print books with random words omitted. Algorithms must exist which could be used to omit the least necessary words &#8212; that is, words most readers could assume through context rather than by literally being included in print. Research has been done into the readability of jumbled text but I would be interested in studies into the readability of texts with words omitted. <\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, the stuff of poetry. Is succinctness of expression something we can trust to an algorithm? It could be fun to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In language teaching, a cloze test is a test in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The task of the learner is to fill each space with the missing word or a suitable word. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-cloze","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}