Describing what I do using only the 10,000 most used words.

[purplecat]

From miss_s_b:

I try to find things out about how to build computer stuff that works stuff out on it's own and then I try to show that it works right.

Words I was forbidden included: robots, systems, decision, choice, correctly and properly.

You can try it yourself here

Comments

And one of the most misused words.

[jhgowen.livejournal.com]

its, not it's. /other sort of pedant.

Interesting that all these words are one syllable, except for about, and the only longish word that is commonly used is computer.

Re: And one of the most misused words.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

If you check the about stuff, it's not really 'most commonly used words' - it uses a 1000-word list from contemporary fiction. Hence, I suspect, the appearance of words like gaze, breath, especially, seriously, themselves in preference to, for example; teach, create, correct, weather

Re: And one of the most misused words.

[purplecat]

That's interesting. I'd vaguely assumed the were using one of the big word use databases - I think there's a large one based on phrases used across a lot of newspapers that the natural language people are always keen on.

Re: And one of the most misused words.

[purplecat]

its, not it's. /other sort of pedant.

Damn! And I actually caught and changed that when I typed it in, only the wrong way around.