> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Chat <[email protected]> Namens Donna Y > Verzonden: vrijdag 2 november 2018 21:20 > Aan: [email protected] forum <[email protected]> > Onderwerp: Re: [Jchat] Standardized technical English > > > Donna Y > [email protected] > > (...) > > Your friend wants to learn more English to be able to discuss particle physics > and cosmology at Harvard. See: > > > Roberto Trotta, an astrophysicist, tells the history of the universe using > only > one thousand most-used words in the English language in a book called "The > Edge Of The Sky.". > > > Big ideas don’t always need big words > > > > Roberto Trotta: "The Edge of Sky" | Talks at Google > > > > http://robertotrotta.com <http://robertotrotta.com/> >
This reminds me of https://blog.xkcd.com/2015/05/13/new-book-thing-explainer/ "he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words." R.E. Boss ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
