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Re:Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most ... by hackbinary on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:56PM (#11441479)
Maybe the author is just out by an order of magnitude? Maybe it should be 10,000 words?
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Re:Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most ... by Retra on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @08:50PM (#11443733)
Maybe it should be the 1000 least ambiguous words.
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Re:Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most ... by iamcurious on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:08PM (#11448370)
I suspect that a list of the least ambiguous words would be made entirely of numbers.
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Re:Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most ... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:11PM (#11448394)
Couple. Trio. Threesome. Still room for ambiguity!
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Re:Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most ... by Semiapies on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:30PM (#11448560)
That and extremely technical terms.
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