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A similar editor was made for the book Thing Explainer[1] by Randal Munroe from XKCD. A book that explains all kinds of different things, from space shuttles to
by kf5jak 10y ago
A similar editor was made for the book Thing Explainer[1] by Randal Munroe from XKCD. A book that explains all kinds of different things, from space shuttles to microwaves using the top 1000 common English words.
[1] https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/ https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/
- kf5jak 10y agoI should of read everything first and would of saw the reference already made... My bad
- jsprogrammer 10y ago*have
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- dormento 10y agoJust a small nit: The words sound alike but they mean different things. You should have read everything, then you would have seen the reference. Source: grammer.
- zanalyzer 10y agoJust a small nit: The words sound alike but they mean different things. "Grammer" is a German company making automotive components. "Grammar" is the thing with words'n sentences'n shit. Just sayin' ;)
- EliRivers 10y agoHe knew exactly what he was doing.
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- DigitalJack 10y agoThis is just a phonetic misspelling of the contraction "should've" which really is pronounced "should of"
- mirimir 10y agoOr "should a" ;)
- jjuel 10y agoHowever, should've is a shortened version of should have so I think the point still stands.
- colejohnson66 10y agoAin't the English language great when we can have multiple contractions such as "couldn't've"
- tobr 10y agoYou can actually try XKCD's editor at https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/
- Tharkun 10y agoYeah it's called "thing explainer", but it's more like a "thing convoluter". It's a work humour, not a book of science.
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- tormeh 10y agoSome of the explanations are actually going into a textbook now, to accompany more traditional text. So it seems professionals disagree with you. I will concede that it might have been clearer with the top 2000 words or something, but that's my perspective and plenty of kids might disagree, especially those that have grown up with weird dialects or even sociolects like AAVE.
- readams 10y agoNo. He's doing some drawings for text books. There is no chance that the thing explainer 1000 words affectation will be adopted for the text book for the purpose of actual teaching.
- Tharkun 10y agoReally? That's interesting. Do you have a source for that? I can't imagine how talking about "bags of air" and "bags of yellow water" is any clearer than talking about "lungs" or "bladders".
- Silhouette 10y agoIt's a work humour, not a book of science. Indeed. I thought it was an interesting experiment. The results make it abundantly clear that 1,000 words are not enough to communicate about science and engineering topics effectively even at an introductory "plain English" level.