[WikiEN-l] Use of English

[Gordon Joly]

At 11:00 -0800 3/4/06, Mark Wagner wrote:
>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.
>

That easy!

:-)

a)
c is the same all over

b)
time x y z all same over all ways

******

In big words:

(a) constancy of the speed of light

(b) principle of equivalence for inertial frames.

YMMV,

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