If you have read my writing before, you know that I like to
write about games that people play, especially games that other people pay them
to play. I also like to use numbers to talk about these games. Sometimes I use
numbers that other people made up, but sometimes nobody else has made up
numbers that can help me find out the things I want to know about the games I
am writing about, so I make up my own numbers. I have a lot of fun seeing what
my numbers say about the games I am watching, but the numbers can sometimes be hard
for other people to understand.
So I am trying a new thing right now, using an idea from a
man who used to help our country build boats that fly into space, and now makes
funny drawings that people look at on their computers. He decided to draw a
picture of an important space boat and write about what all of the parts do,
but in words that most people can understand. He decided to use only the ten
hundred words used most often in the language we use in my country. The drawing
he made helped people learn about the space boat, and it was also very funny.
The people who saw the drawing liked it so much that he decided to make a whole
book of pictures of hard-to-understand things that were explained in simple
words. (It is called Thing Explainer and it is a very good book.)
This man also made a place that helps other people write
using the same words that he did. That is what I am doing now. I am going to
explain some of the numbers I have made up using only the ten hundred words
people use the most in this language.
