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

Re:Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most ... by sametmax on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:30AM (#11448026)

It's because he doesn't aim to actually solve problems or provide meaningful answers. Simples words are good if your goal is to be rally a large number of people. But it's not practical if you want to build a car, honestly debate about social issues or describe how un cell works.

What a lot of smart people don't understand though, is that in politics, not trying to solve problems, but trying to appeal to people is the goal. And you don't use the same tools at all for that.

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Re:Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most ... by kbenson on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:09PM (#11448380)

I think it works well for high level overviews. This may be in part because it prevents the use domain knowledge and terminology, which is natural for an expert who might be writing the overview, but hard for a layman to grasp. Put more simply, I think it's useful to describe something generally, but not when trying to describe in detail or specify attributes exactly.

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Re:Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most ... by sametmax on Thursday April 07, 2016 @02:02PM (#11449236)

Exactly.

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