[WikiEN-l] Use of English

[Mark Wagner]

On 4/3/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
>
> > On 4/3/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My biggest problem with "simple" is that many of the articles I have
> >> seen on there are just plain *incorrect* (i.e. one which listed
> >
> > It seems to me that whereas normally between wikipedias, we can't
> > guarantee a one to one correspondance. Is there any reason that should
> > be the case for SE? Perhaps by default every En page should contain a
> > (red)link to its simple equivalent, and definitely vice versa. Perhaps
> > even stubs should be created for every single en article on simple,
> > saying "we don't have this version in simple english, in the meantime,
> > click here" or something?
>
> Simple English has one fatal flaw: sometimes there is no way to
> describe a subject without using big, confusing words. I would
> shudder at any presentation of any important topic in philosophy
> that's restricted to a 1,000 word vocabulary.

Someone did a reasonably good explanation of Special Relativity using
only words of four letters or less.

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Mark
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