Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English

Post by jjuel » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 9:07 PM UTC

DigitalJack wrote: post #34

dormento wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just 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.

This is just a phonetic misspelling of the contraction "should've" which really is pronounced "should of"

Post by wang_li » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 9:14 PM UTC

gregschlom wrote: post #24

Am I the only one to find that using only the 1,000 most common words actually makes thing harder to understand? The writer ends up having to use convoluted paraphrases to refer to things where a precise, well defined and well understood word exists but it's not part of the top 1,000.

Post by WalterBright » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 9:17 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

erelde wrote: post #88

webkike wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ability to describe anything says nothing about the clarity of the description

While playing the devil's advocate, I could argue that the description using only 0 and 1 is more precise than the phrase "It's a picture of a white cliff on the shore of the sea, possibly in the south of England, in the foreground there's the silhouette of a man or woman to small to distinguish clearly at the bottom of the cliff, the sky above the cliff is bright blue with a few trailing clouds etc etc etc etc etc".…

Post by igravious » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 9:20 PM UTC

eracer001 wrote: post #54

Would love a slider that would allow you to adjust the words allowed from 500 most common words in English to 10k most common words. Also, it would be great if you could compile a windows version.