The UpGoerFive text editor

[thargol]

From major_clanger via bibliogirl:

Can you descrive your job using only the 1000 most common words in the English language? The Up Goer Five XKCD comic inspired the Up-Goer Five text editor, which tells you if you've entered allowed words. Here's my attempt (it's not exactly right, but it's not too far off):

I tell computers how to let people place money on which team

Comments

[bibliogirl]

I take it "win" isn't in the list of allowed words?

[thargol]

How did you guess? :-) It make it significantly harder to describe my job.

[bibliogirl]

I imagine ;)

[engineerpoet]

The main thing I got from that XKCD and "Uncleftish beholding" was just how incredibly rich English is.

[navilor]

I tell people how to make their moving pictures that also have sound work on the phone that they carry with them. I show them how to fix their computer when it breaks so their phones can watch the pictures go by.

I talk with them. I send them words that they can read on their computer. If they have a question I answer it. If I can't answer their question I ask someone else and then tell the person the answer.

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What really sucks is that I have to dumb some of my e-mails down to that level to help people figure out why their network is broken, why their video won't work or why their server keeps crashing.

[57degrees]

Hmmm. Neither "email" nor "message" is allowed, which makes describing my job of email administrator rather hard....

"I run computers that help people tell each other what they want or need. When they tell someone what they want, that gets stored. When the other person wants what has been stored, they get it. Sometimes, the person who got it, put it somewhere they did not expect. I help them find it."

That was tracking down a message misfiled in a folder by a rule. How to describe helping someone figure out they fat-fingered an email address?

[somewoman]

"I make paper that cleans air for really big cars so that they don't break."

I was really surprised that paper was allowed. Made describing my job a lot easier.