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autoexec07/31/20251 replyview on HN

I question how well many of the words that come to mind could be defined using only other one syllable words, but it sounds like a fun project.


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alnwlsn08/01/2025

Most of them aren't defined as rigorously as a dictionary would do, it's more like trying to come up with a plausible description for each word.

"day" might be "time in which the sun goes round the earth" even though that's not technically correct.

"sit" could be "to take a chair" and "sat" might be "to have took a chair"

"moth" is "a bug that flies and likes to eat cloth", and so on.

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