To language lovers

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.