#upgoer5

A few years back, a computer picture story called 'XKCD' made a good picture that showed the up goer five. This picture used only the ten hundred most used words. It made me laugh, but also made me thing about the way I speak.

Hard words have their place, but you can say many hard things using only simple words. As a good student I am used to speaking with very long words, and I often say things in a way that is hard to understand if you are not a good student as well. It doesn't have to be like this, and I think it would be good to try to spend some time speaking with only simple words.

To that end, (which is a set of words that together are too hard anyway,) I think it is a good idea to do this several times so that I can get better at this. I don't think it is a good idea to do this every time, but doing it more would not hurt. It may even help me with my work since many people I work with only know simple words since they are from another place.

I am a person who works with making things on and in the ground. 

One thing we do, finds the best ways to build things on ground that is not good for making things on. Sometimes the ground is too soft. Then you need to change it to be harder. Some ground-types can be shaken to make the ground-pieces touch one-another in the right order. Other ground-types can be made harder by pressing them together with different types of round things, one type to make water not go through (can-eating animal type) and another type makes it able to let water through more easily (just round type).

Another thing we do is to, make plans for things that hold back lots of water. There is one type of plan for when water is moving and one for when water is still. The water-that-is-still things can hold back as much as five hundred hundred hundred hundred hundred hundred feet raised to three of water. The moving-water things can be very long, two hundred hundred hundred hundred feet long along one moving water place-thing in my living-place.

These are just two things that we ground-stuff plan-making people do. But we also work on all the under-bottom-parts of roads and places-where-people-work-or-live.

A text editor has been developed based on xkcd's comic Up Goer 5.

The text editor only allows you to use the top ten hundred words. (The word Thousand is not in this list)

There are two brothers who live in far away from each other.  One of the brothers writes books for old children, and the other does many things. To talk they send each other movies. These movies are shown where anyone can see them. Many other people watch these movies because they are funny or interesting. The other people who watch the movies like to talk to each other because they have many shared interests.

This group of people calls themselves those who fight interesting people. This name can be confusing, because they don't against fight interesting people, they fight FOR interesting people. They also try and make the world suck less, and raise lots of money to help people every year. These people are made completely of cool, and I'm glad to be one of them.

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[I took a crack at explaining First Sale in Up-Goer Five speak, based on a fun exchange I had with Brandon Butler of ARL Policy -- read all about our attempt, and let us know if you can do better!]

Four times twenty and seven years ago, our fathers started on this large land area a new group of people, starting with the idea that people are free to enjoy rights, and working to show that the new idea that all men are made with rights like one another's is true.

Now we are in the middle of a great group of fights between groups of people who share the same area, trying to decide whether that group of people, or any group of people, so started and so working, can long continue. We are met on a great field where one of those fights happened. We have come to talk in a way that shows we care about a part of that field, as a last resting place for those who here gave their lives that that group of people might live. It is totally fitting and in line with good ways of doing things that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not talk in a way that shows we care, we can not act in a way that shows we care, we can not make this ground a place God cares about. The men who stood their ground even when they were scared, living and dead, who struggled here, have acted in a way that shows they care about it, far above our not very strong power to add or take away. The world will little note, and it will not long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, that someone should say here that we are working to show that the not yet finished work which they who fought here have until now pushed for in a great way is good. It is rather for someone to say here that we are working to finish the great work remaining before us—that from these dead of whom we speak well we take even more care to that cause for which they gave the last full show of how much they cared—that we here totally say that these dead will not have died for no good reason—that this group of people, under God, will have a new start of the right and truth of being free—and that a smaller group that runs the group of people made of the people, by the people, for the people, will not go away from the round place where the large land and water areas are.

Translated with the up-goer five text editor.