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I've taken some technical texts I've written in the past and run them through the xkcd simplifier - it identifies words that are not in the 1000 most common English words (? something like that).

https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/

I keep the words that truly add value to the project, and replace all the others with more simple ways of saying whatever I am trying to say. Usually in the process I lose a few lines of text (occasionally I can a few bullet points instead). It's a pretty good experience to go through (for example, this post fails. A lot.)



It would be nice to have something like this with common words used in programming contexts added to it. Maybe as a VSCode plugin or something.




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