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Instead of waiting for each word to be typed, why not show acceptable words as you are typing, so you can tell before you finish typing if it is valid.
Unclear on why this is a good thing. Dumbing down language helps whom, exactly? I guess if you want to hasten the Idiocracy this is your app.
edit: i see that some are saying it's a joke. Poe's Law [0]?
Before downvoting me, and you will, do consider that I have zero scientific evidence for the above sarcastic comment; however, anecdotally speaking, all long-term pot smokers that I happen to know seem to speak with 1000 common words, or less.
Also, is there a Vim plugin to do that?
I read years ago that the vocabulary used on TV was about 2,000 words. A high school graduate has a vocabulary of 10,000 words, a college graduate 30,000, and there are a million words in the English language. What was interesting to me was that I could learn a foreign language by only learning 2,000 words!
The aim of Newspeak is to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple concepts (pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, goodthink and crimethink) that reinforce the total dominance of the State
I read years ago that the vocabulary used on TV was about 2,000 words. A high school graduate has a vocabulary of 10,000 words, a college graduate 30,000, and there are a million words in the English language. What was interesting to me was that I could learn a foreign language by only learning 2,000 words!
That is interesting. What about languages other than English? Any idea about the avg. word count needed to learn them? (Used on TV does seem like a good benchmark for "learned). Or is it roughly the same for every language, do you think?
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.