Kaius

Roughly 20% make it to 90.

And around 1% make it to 100.

The road curves steeply at the end!

  Ok so I get that it could be quiet
  difficult to write sentences which
  must be of a fixed length. However
  hyperbolically calling it the most
  scarily/stunningly linguistic feat
  is ridiculous in the extreme. I am
  certain that a person sufficiently
  motivated, could produce a similar
  document. Comparing something like
  this to the work of Mozart is just
  nonsense. I mean, I couldn't write 
  a piece of music like Mozart if my
  life depended on it.

I'm a relatively tall guy and am wary sitting on these, standing on them would be certain failure. They are essentially cheap trash that will spend ~12 months looking like a chair and 500 years looking like a broken chair in a landfill.

It seems you cannot, 404 error.

It was an interesting discussion however.

Crazy. I was going to mention that her time would have been better spent writing 1 good book rather than 5000 that (I assume because I have never heard of her name before) were mediocre. Quality over Quantity.

Then I thought, perhaps writing brought her joy regardless of how well received the final book is, so she spent her time well by making herself happy doing what she loved. Be happy in your work.

Then I though, jesus 60 books a year, that sounds like she was manically driven to write almost non-stop for her entire life, which is awful. Work will set you free.

Good quote from Ted.

So yes, it sounds like using the most common 1K words would aid readability but you probably need to raise that to 2.5K or more. Low enough to avoid the use of complex words while also freeing the author from awkward phrasings.

Could this more easily be explained by an aggressive disease or plague that wiped out anyone it contacted and the separation of the 2 groups (N and M) in different locations protected enough of the N group for it to prosper. Also isolated pockets of M carriers who had migrated beyond the infected area survived.