Think you know Downton Abbey? Try using the Up-Goer Five Text Editor to describe the plot using the thousand most common words in English! Your description probably won’t sound much like the Dowager Countess. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Describing Downton Abbey with Limited Vocabulary”
We were talking earlier about the Upgoer 5 text editor grant.
I wrote something and I wondered if you could guess what it is.
I’m using only the top 1,000 words from the English language.
Okay, yeah.
This is a plot.
A man is from one place and his wife is from another.
A lot of stuff happens out in the world, like people fighting far away.
A lot of things happen at their big house, too, like dressing up for dinner and trying to get married.
They have three daughters, but the man’s mom always gets the best lines, like, stop feeling sorry for yourself and find something to do.
I don’t know. What is that?
Okay, you’re probably thinking of a book, but this is actually a television series that I’ve been watching.
It’s Downton Abbey.
Oh, okay.
So that’s your reduced description of Downton Abbey.
It doesn’t sound so regal when you put it that way.
No, it doesn’t.
It’s not so alluring, is it?
No, not very sophisticated at all.
It misses the dog butt at the beginning and everything.
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