xkcd Thing Explainer style writing

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xkcd Thing Explainer style writing

Post by atomtengeralattjaro » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:24 pm

I don't know how many of you have seen the part of the four-letter named funny repeating paper (not a real paper), the one that was explaining the Up Goer Five with only the most used ten hundred words in this language (like I am doing now).
Since then, the person who made that thing, has also written a book, named Thing Explainer, where he explains more things in the same way.
He has also made a writing checker to help write in this way.
I wonder if there is a way to make this into some kind of a game. I couldn't come up with a good idea, that's why this is not in the Games part now. But I think this writing checker is fun, and it could be used in two ways. It can be sometimes not easy to write with only these ten hundred words. In the writing checker, if all your words are black, it's simple writing.

But!

Exceeding thousand commonest terms yields orange text.
Alternative method significantly difficulter, naturally frequently grammatically incorrect. Tremendously convoluted, difficultly consumed, nevertheless hilarious, opinions pending. Similar procedure difficulty: acronym manufacturing forum plaything.
Usage: click appropriate xkcd link, type sentences, examine text, replace orange terms, alternatively replace non-orange terms. Experience shall yield delight. Results shall yield forum posts.

(Disclaimer: hereby author confesses: hereby concept {application's reverse usage} uncovered via uppermost comment commented via blog post linked previously. Hence mental spark.)
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Post by lunar_furor » Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:12 pm

This was a nice writing about a good idea. I will try to help you make more use of this idea in the near future.
I'm thinking that the way you wrote before is a good starting point.

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Post by Anonymously Famous » Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:51 pm

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