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Although I enjoy the Saturn 5 "Up goer five" description, I doubt that "goer" is in the top 1,000 most common words... Edit: He's taken the common word list an

by kbutler 11y ago

Although I enjoy the Saturn 5 "Up goer five" description, I doubt that "goer" is in the top 1,000 most common words... Edit: He's taken the common word list and added different forms as he needed them. Go -> goer and goers, because he wanted to use them. Grow is allowed, but grower and growers are not, because he didn't need them.

tgb 11y ago
They probably classify them by top thousand base words. Otherwise every noun and its plural count, every verb and its conjugations, etc. Though it is kinda cheating to call goer a top word.
snewman 11y ago
I think he's allowing conjugations, e.g. "run", "runs", "running", "ran" count as one word. And he's stretching it to include "goer" as a conjugation of "go".
jerf 11y ago
Looking at the simplewriter's JS [1] that lists the legal words [2], it appears to have 3634 entries in it. I assume that under the "rules" alternate forms of the top 1000 words are permitted. I'm not sure the "rules" have been explained elsewhere. (Perhaps in the book but that's not out yet.) "goer" is a legal form of go. I mention this because I actually thought for a moment myself it might not be, but of course Googling it revealed it is extensively used in compound words like "movie-goer". Not sure I've ever seen it in the wild standing on its own, but I'll concede the point. One must grant a certain amount of flexibility here... (And from the "surprisingly klunky translation" department, what player of Final Fantasy X could forget the Blitzball team name the Luca Goers? [3]) [1]: http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ [2]: http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/words.js http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/words.js [3]: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Luca_Goers http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Luca_Goers
evanpw 11y ago
There's a whole thread of speculation about the rules on the xkcd forum [1]. It looks like the conclusion is that derived words are allowed, and the base word list comes from here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Contemporary_fiction https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Co.... "go" is #37. [1] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=98621 http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=98621
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by kbutler 11y ago

tgb 11y ago

They probably classify them by top thousand base words. Otherwise every noun and its plural count, every verb and its conjugations, etc. Though it is kinda cheating to call goer a top word.

snewman 11y ago

I think he's allowing conjugations, e.g. "run", "runs", "running", "ran" count as one word. And he's stretching it to include "goer" as a conjugation of "go".

jerf 11y ago

Looking at the simplewriter's JS [1] that lists the legal words [2], it appears to have 3634 entries in it. I assume that under the "rules" alternate forms of the top 1000 words are permitted. I'm not sure the "rules" have been explained elsewhere. (Perhaps in the book but that's not out yet.) "goer" is a legal form of go. I mention this because I actually thought for a moment myself it might not be, but of course Googling it revealed it is extensively used in compound words like "movie-goer". Not sure I've ever seen it in the wild standing on its own, but I'll concede the point. One must grant a certain amount of flexibility here... (And from the "surprisingly klunky translation" department, what player of Final Fantasy X could forget the Blitzball team name the Luca Goers? [3]) [1]: http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ [2]: http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/words.js http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/words.js [3]: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Luca_Goers http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Luca_Goers

evanpw 11y ago

There's a whole thread of speculation about the rules on the xkcd forum [1]. It looks like the conclusion is that derived words are allowed, and the base word list comes from here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Contemporary_fiction https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Co.... "go" is #37. [1] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=98621 http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=98621

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