Cleartext is influenced by the book Thing Explainer by xkcd creator Randall Munroe, which only uses the 1,000 most common English words. Munroe released Simple Text last year, of which Cleartext ...

Mac: Last year, XKCD’s Randall Monroe released Simple Writer, a web app that restricted your writing to the top 1,000 most commons words in the English ... you want to use common language ...

Merriam-Webster added more than 1,000 entries to its dictionary on Tuesday, with terms from all corners of the English language. New words in the ... This is a common expression used to describe ...

Over at the Guardian, writer Joshua Foer talks about how he managed to learn a language in about 22 hours of work, and how the 1,000 most common words were the magic number for the rest of his ...