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Can someone clarify the slang 'based'?



This is not at all what the OP link is using the word to mean. "Based" has become a meme word to mean good, agreeable, against the norms, and often controversial.


Imagine disagreeing with The BasedGod about his own word. lol


I believe red and yellow just mean the 'reading level' expected. When writing for a very broad audience, or writing things that need to be short and easy to read like e-mails, you want to aim for 'lower' reading levels.

I pasted some excerpts from a paper I was reading and it gave the 'Post-Graduate' reading level. Does not mean it's bad writing, just hard to read (it's probably inevitable at that level).

It's probably a great tool for daily work, some people at my workplace used Grammarly, but it's paid, so this could be a good alternative.


I think it hinders our ability to identify an unsolved problem, I'm always left wondering if there's no easy answer to the question I asked Google or if I just wrote the wrong query. The feeling is that there's always an answer, someone already did or thought about that and wrote it somewhere, on Stack Overflow or a personal blog, and I just didn't write the right Google query yet.


I love this level on Mirrors Edge


Came here to post this. Now I know where they got their inspiration! Though, ironically enough, I always got the vibe that that city from the first game was more like Singapore.


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