I'd be interested to hear how this will affect MakerSquare. I saw the announcement and it seems like Hack Reactor is adopting a fairly laissez-faire approach. Have you seen any changes in the lead up to this? How do you think it will play out?
Out of curiosity, how did you generate that list? I looked into doing something similar a couple months back, but i couldn't find nearly as complete of a source for syllable count.
What language specifically are you looking at monads in? If it's anything other than haskell, I can give advice, having recently had the concept click, and gone through similar frustrations.