{"id":2252,"date":"2013-01-24T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:35:27","slug":"the-up-goer-five-text-editor-using-only-the-ten-hundred-most-used-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/the-up-goer-five-text-editor-using-only-the-ten-hundred-most-used-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Up-Goer Five Text Editor: using only the ten hundred most used words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1133\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2253\" title=\"up_goer_five_crop\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/up_goer_five_crop-300x153.png\" alt=\"Detail from Up Goer Five http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1133\/ from xkcd.com by Randall Munroe\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/up_goer_five_crop-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/up_goer_five_crop-500x256.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/up_goer_five_crop.png 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This past weekend I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/splasho.com\/upgoer5\/\">Up-Goer Five Text Editor<\/a>, created by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Theo_Sanderson\">Theo Sanderson<\/a>, that was inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1133\/\">Up Goer Five XKCD comic<\/a>. The editor checks a block of text and indicates if any of the words you have used are not included in the one thousand &#8211; or <em>ten hundred<\/em> because \u201cthousand\u201d is not one of them &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists\/Contemporary_fiction\"> most frequently used words in English (contemporary fiction)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People seem to be embracing the challenge posed by the ten-hundred piece vocabulary. There is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/tenhundredwordsofscience.tumblr.com\/\"><em>Ten Hundred Words of Science<\/em> Tumblr<\/a> for scientific explanations that satisfy the ten-hundred words rule (though \u201cscience\u201d is also not one of the top ten hundred) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23UpGoerFive&amp;src=hash\">#UpGoerFive<\/a> hashtag on Twitter, which provide some pretty interesting reading. And Jason B. Jones <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/the-up-goer-five-text-editor\/45529\">suggests using the editor can offer new perspective for your writing<\/a> over at Prof Hacker.<\/p>\n<p>What does your research sound like using only the most common words? Why not give it a try? Let us know if you do!<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/shortcuts\/2013\/jan\/22\/up-goer-five-thing-on-computer\">The Up-Goer Five \u2013 a thing you can find on a computer<\/a><\/em> <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Detail from <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1133\/\">Up Goer Five<\/a> (from <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">xkcd.com<\/a>) by Randall Munroe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I came across the Up-Goer Five Text Editor, created by Theo Sanderson, that was inspired by the Up Goer Five XKCD comic. The editor checks a block of text and indicates if any of the words you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/the-up-goer-five-text-editor-using-only-the-ten-hundred-most-used-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}