Platinum
2024-12-30T03:06:53.000Z
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Churby
2024-12-30T03:08:01.000Z
DredgenMoonMoon
2024-12-30T03:16:19.000Z
The Mediocre Muggsy
Jay
2024-12-30T03:18:01.000Z
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6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-30T03:23:54.000Z
this emote was MADE for this experience.
oozecat
2024-12-30T03:31:38.000Z
I do not get trying to update classics rather than teaching about how languages change over time.
6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-30T03:59:59.000Z
gatsby is not a hard read
6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-30T04:00:42.000Z
feed some faulkner into that ai and tell me how well it does
Finnegans Wake
Jay
2024-12-30T04:29:11.000Z
yeah honestly their example for making it easier is...shorter, but it strips the narrative personality
Nox
2024-12-30T04:56:36.000Z
I mean god forbid we have anyone just like

look up words they don't recognize, so they can learn what they mean
6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-30T04:58:42.000Z
the incredibly difficult vocabulary word "father"
Iggy
2024-12-30T05:49:05.000Z
kindle literally has a define word function but i can't imagine you'd need to define any word that fitzgerald ever wrote
Platinum
2024-12-30T22:31:41.000Z
trying to figure out a way to politely say some stuff because folks in a server we were discussing this in are all for it because it makes it easier for people who aren't good at reading to understand, or people who're ESL.
I can understand maybe for people who are ESL, but like: 1. Consider watching a film version with subtitles in a more familiar language 2. You can read easier books until you're ready for harder ones
But on the other hand, when I was a kid, I loved Moby Books Classics, and this isn't different. Neither are Classics Illustrated comics, really. Maybe if someone likes the story, they'll come back to the real thing later.
Platinum
2024-12-30T23:49:01.000Z
I brought that up and got told that the people I was talking to "don’t think it’s for me to say what’s right and wrong for other people to consume media."
Platinum
2024-12-30T23:49:37.000Z
Abridged things are, like. They're not bad, necessarily, but they're also not really the same media.
Great Illustrated Classics homepage - find the compl... these were and are the greatest thing. I can't hate on them.
I read so many classics this way when I was like... eight. I did come back to the real thing later if I liked the story.
Platinum
2024-12-30T23:51:16.000Z
And I think that's where it's really coming down to for me, like. It's a way to get familiar with the story, but it's no longer told the same way and it's really no longer the same thing you wanted to read when you started using this app on it.
I think it may come down to that "what is Taste" discussion (and Lewis's On Criticism) I was talking about recently: if a person is a one and done reader they aren't going to get much out of this kind of thing because it's not the real experience of reading the works the app is presenting.
if they're a person who Savors Art For Art's Sake (which says absolutely nothing about their morality, only that they have a specific kind of aesthetic/artistic palate/appreciation) then they will reread, savor, keep getting something out of it.
or they might get something out of the simplified version but maybe not quite the same thing that they might have gotten out of the original. It's hard to say. It probably isn't the same experience, though.
vast energies
2024-12-30T23:56:45.000Z
throw some H.P. Lovecraft character dialogue in there and watch it go from seven paragraphs to "it was scary"
Platinum
2024-12-30T23:58:03.000Z
much spoop
Nox
2024-12-31T00:06:23.000Z
I definitely see a good usage case for ESL learning assistance, but they aren't really leaning into that in that post.

Though it's certainly possible they're going the "As Seen On TV" route and just not saying who their actual target demographic is
Nox
2024-12-31T00:07:35.000Z
(and by that I mean a lot of the wacky devices you see in ASOTV commercials are actually meant to assist the elderly and/or people with mobility issues and difficulty doing certain tasks, but they're convinced it won't sell if they make that apparent)
6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-31T00:16:45.000Z
this is like people who want to hack d&d to be a gritty space travel game and you're like "...traveller is right there"
6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-31T00:17:26.000Z
you can have a second-rate experience with something, or you can go find another thing that actually meets your needs
Platinum
2024-12-31T00:17:36.000Z
"Is there a way to play Cyberpunk Edgerunners in D&D?"
6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-31T00:17:56.000Z
i am 9000% convinced that was a joke
6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-31T00:17:59.000Z
X-(
Platinum
2024-12-31T00:19:14.000Z
I would believe that if they hadn't edited it twice and then removed all mention of the article from social media
6LilacMimeLions
2024-12-31T00:19:29.000Z
lolllllllllllll
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