A text editor that only allows the top 1000 most common words in English

I use http://hemingwayapp.com/ to help me make my writing clear.

Although I find "Thing Explainer" funny, the idea that the problem with English is just that it has a lot of words is misguided. In the 1930s when artificial languages were big there was one called "Basic English" that was based on the top 800 English words. The problem is that even with a small vocabulary you can get very complicated sentences and idioms, and those are more confusing to language learners than just words (which after all, can be looked up or figured out from context).

I like the editor. There's obviously interest in this after XKCD.

It'd be really cool if people had a look at "Easy Read", and how to make it easier to translate stuff into easy read. Easy Read is a system aimed at people with a learning disability (UK definition), but it's used by more people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-26836091

http://www.ohb.scot.nhs.uk/article.asp?page=252

https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2008...

http://www.effortmark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/4008_...

I think that an editor that didn't allow any term but the magic 1000 words would be utterly useless (crashing on proper names, tech acronyms, etc.) At least there's an option to highlight rather than disallow.

This is similar to xkcd simple writer: https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ .

Wow, this is double plus good!