We love language as much as you do, and because we love language, we want more people reading more of it.
If you love language, and you have a wide, deep vocabulary, and you understand and appreciate the difference between the words cagey and clever and wise and cunning and wily and judicious and erudite and prescient, that's great!
Keep in mind that there are lots of people who don't. They don't understand what many of those words mean, they get frustrated when they see them, and then they stop reading.
They don't stop to look up the words. They simply stop reading.
Calamitous.
So, Rewordify.com simplifies those words to make them easier to understand. As a result, a lot more people will read that sentence and actually understand the basic meaning behind it.
We know that simplifying the word wily to clever takes some of the meaning out of it.
Because of this, some people might think that Rewordify.com delays vocabulary development and hurts literacy.
Piffle.
Just because you can bench press 400 pounds, it doesn't mean that the gym should throw out the lighter weights. Other people have to use the gym, and not all of them are built like a defensive tackle.
Give people weights they can lift, and they'll lift them.
Give people words they can understand, and they'll read them.
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Keep learning new words!
Think of this site as a stepstool, not a jet-pack you strap on to go flying all over the world.
The truth is, there's no such thing as a jet-pack that will fly you all over the world, and there's no such thing as a computer that can simplify everything.
Rewordify.com can help you understand more of what you read, but there are thousands and thousands of wonderful words that will make your life a lot more interesting if you know them.
You see, Rewordify.com's computers are good at taking complicated words, like veracity, and rewording them to simpler versions. (Veracity means "truthfulness", by the way.)
But what about terms like diabetes and impressionism? These are names of big, important things that can't be simply reworded. You'll be better off if you know what they are.
It wouldn't be right for this site's computers to simplify things so much that all the beauty, meaning, and wisdom of language is stripped away. Diabetes isn't just a "sickness", and impressionism isn't just "art."
So, keep reading and keep learning. If you see a word that you don't know, ask someone what it means, or look it up online!
The truth is, there's no such thing as a jet-pack that will fly you all over the world, and there's no such thing as a computer that can simplify everything.
Rewordify.com can help you understand more of what you read, but there are thousands and thousands of wonderful words that will make your life a lot more interesting if you know them.
You see, Rewordify.com's computers are good at taking complicated words, like veracity, and rewording them to simpler versions. (Veracity means "truthfulness", by the way.)
But what about terms like diabetes and impressionism? These are names of big, important things that can't be simply reworded. You'll be better off if you know what they are.
It wouldn't be right for this site's computers to simplify things so much that all the beauty, meaning, and wisdom of language is stripped away. Diabetes isn't just a "sickness", and impressionism isn't just "art."
So, keep reading and keep learning. If you see a word that you don't know, ask someone what it means, or look it up online!
Weird English 1
The words feckless, fecund, and feculent sound the same, but their meanings are very different.
Feckless means "incompetent." The opposite of feckless is...
Fecund, which means "able to make children, or produce fruit, or be productive." Don't confuse fecund with...
Feculent, which means, actually, well, it means..."full of feces."
Confuse these words, and you might have a lot of apologizing to do.
"Honey, I meant your mother was fecund! Fecund! Not feculent! I know, I know. I'm feckless."
Feckless means "incompetent." The opposite of feckless is...
Fecund, which means "able to make children, or produce fruit, or be productive." Don't confuse fecund with...
Feculent, which means, actually, well, it means..."full of feces."
Confuse these words, and you might have a lot of apologizing to do.
"Honey, I meant your mother was fecund! Fecund! Not feculent! I know, I know. I'm feckless."
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