In an era when 141 characters is considered simply too damn long, a “shorter” thesaurus makes sense – especially one that’s no further away than your Firefox Search Bar:
The Shorter Thesaurus site simply accepts the word you type, then returns shorter synonym – the perfect way to squeeze your latest Mastertweet under the limit.
Sure, it’s odd and weird and maybe even a little wrong, but if we can’t harness the power of the Internet to help us find better ways to communicate less, then why build the thing in the first place?
Best of all, a plug-in is now available for Firefox and Internet Explorer, and you can even add the Shorter Thesaurus to your Firefox search bar (while you’re on the Shorter Thesaurus page, simply click the drop-down list of search engines in your search bar and select “add THSRS”).
Bingo. You’re ready to create shorter, sweeter sentences.
The tool is found on the Ironic Sans blog site – a photographer’s blog that’s interesting enough that even a copywriter might want to add it to his RSS reader.
Keep writing (using shorter words if necessary), Tom Chandler.
