XKCD's Freedom-class ship diagram using only the 1000 most commonly used words

[ahecht]

Randall Munroe, who creates the online comic strip XKCD, created a diagram of a Freedom-class ship for the upcoming Jonathan Coulton cruise. The catch is that, like the recent "Up Goer Five" comic strip, all the explanations are limited to the 1000 words people use most often (click image for full-size version with all the text legible):

 

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[sirk25]

That is fricken hillarious!! Awesome :D

 

*LIKE*

[maureencruiser]

Hmmm....Funny...Calm is one of the 1000 most common words? And imagining??? I'll have to check this out! Thanks for posting!!

[dmwnc1959]

'The floor between eight and ten'. Cute. ;)

 

It took me a while to figure out what the 'cold hard water floor' was. :rolleyes:

 

Funny stuff.

[Merion_Mom]

really really really funny.

 

How amusing that apparently "nine" is NOT one of the 1,000 most common words in English!

[NorbertsNiece]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing :D

[LidoBoy]

Geek power! :D

[Toddcan]

I love the note explaining the use of the word "floor" as opposed to "deck".. lol.

[emmad1973]

So funny! I might give this to my DH on our next cruise as his map :-)

 

Emma

[Cinnleigh]

Awesome

 

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[rissandave]

I'm on that cruise, but not with that group. I'm looking forward to meeting some of them!