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I've taken some technical texts I've written in the past and run them through the xkcd simplifier - it identifies words that are not in the 1000 most common Eng
by ergothus 7y ago
I've taken some technical texts I've written in the past and run them through the xkcd simplifier - it identifies words that are not in the 1000 most common English words (? something like that).
https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/
I keep the words that truly add value to the project, and replace all the others with more simple ways of saying whatever I am trying to say. Usually in the process I lose a few lines of text (occasionally I can a few bullet points instead). It's a pretty good experience to go through (for example, this post fails. A lot.)
- hiccuphippo 7y agoIt would be nice to have something like this with common words used in programming contexts added to it. Maybe as a VSCode plugin or something.