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Reminds me of Wikipedia's "simple English" approach. I think the difference is, that simple or basic English only uses the 1000 most common words.
by k__ 6y ago
Reminds me of Wikipedia's "simple English" approach.
I think the difference is, that simple or basic English only uses the 1000 most common words.
- throwanem 6y agoYou might not know it, but "thousand" is not one of the ten hundred most usual English words! https://github.com/aaron-em/ten-hundred-mode.el https://github.com/aaron-em/ten-hundred-mode.el
- rimliu 6y agoI think this is English specific and could do more harm than good for someone with a different background. E.g. in my language counting anything > 1000 in hundreds would sound very weird.
- throwanem 6y ago"Ten hundred", "twenty hundred", etc. sound very weird in English, too, despite "eleven hundred", "twelve hundred", etc. being commonplace in at least the American dialect. That said, "ten hundred" is hardly the weirdest thing about English prose written in ten-hundred-mode...