{"id":1980,"date":"2019-03-14T18:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:49","slug":"73365-plain-language-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/73365-plain-language-isnt-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"73:365 | Plain Language Isn&#8217;t Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/56365-plain-language\/\">As I&#8217;ve mentioned in prior posts<\/a>, I&#8217;m trying to get my head around plain language as a way to not only support adults struggling with low literacy but also as a tool to support accessibility. I wasn&#8217;t able to attend today&#8217;s session by Literacy Works on Plain Language 101, but Jeff sent me a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/splasho.com\/upgoer5\/\">Up-Goer Five Text Editor<\/a> by Theo Sanderson (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theosanderson\">@theosanderson on Twitter<\/a>) that pushes you to &#8220;explain a hard idea using only <a href=\"http:\/\/splasho.com\/upgoer5\/phpspellcheck\/dictionaries\/1000.dicin\">the 1,000 most used words<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Using the <a href=\"http:\/\/splasho.com\/upgoer6\/?i=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\">Up-Goer Six Text Editor that color codes words to show how common they are<\/a>, I was able to see what it would take to re-write the above paragraph using only the 1,000 most used words. I then made an attempt using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor that resulted in the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I&#8217;ve mentioned, I&#8217;m trying to get my head around writing more simply to help people struggling to read, as well as others. I wasn&#8217;t able to join today&#8217;s class [by <span class=\"livespell_redwiggle\">Literacy<\/span> Works] on it, but [<span class=\"livespell_redwiggle\">Jeff<\/span>] told me about the [Up-Goer Five <span class=\"livespell_redwiggle\">Text<\/span> <span class=\"livespell_redwiggle\">Editor]<\/span> that pushes you to &#8216;explain a hard idea using only the 1,000 most used words'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That was NOT EASY! The only non-permitted words I used (Literacy, Jeff, Text, and Editor) were names (or part of names), so I feel that was a reasonable compromise. Give it a try!<\/p>\n<p>p.s. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BpJ96c-gRb8\/\">This featured image is a mural painted by @tada_artists in Tampa<\/a> in October of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in prior posts, I&#8217;m trying to get my head around plain language as a way to not only support adults struggling with low literacy but also as a tool to support accessibility. 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