Cleartext is a text editor that only lets you use the 1000 most common words in English

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@Professor59

I wonder if xkcd Randall used this to write Thing Explainer?

I think maybe he rolled his own…

I have the same question about this editor as I had about Randall’s Thing Explainer – what’s the source of the list? (Because, as noted in the linked comment, these lists vary widely.)