#You are skipping some important steps in your reasoning regarding the fact that “most of the time” when you discover a thing, that thing’s lifespan will end in about the same time as the time it spent from its inception to the time you discovered it
Reminds me of that guy who hates translations
“I read everything in its original language even if I don't speak it. I have read the entirety of Les misérables in French, Divine Comedy in Italian, Don Quijote in Spanish and Brothers Karamazov in Russia, without understanding a single word.”
Chatgpt be all
"In the halcyon days of my youth, my father imparted to me a piece of wisdom, a nugget of profound insight, which, despite the passage of many years, continues to linger in the corridors of my mind and influence my contemplations."
"In the halcyon days of my youth, my father imparted to me a piece of wisdom, a nugget of profound insight, a *tapestry of tales*, which, despite the passage of many years, continues to linger in the corridors of my mind and influence my contemplations."
Only ask and chatgpt shall deliver.
"In the halcyon days of my youth, my father imparted to me a piece of multifaceted wisdom, a nugget of profound insight, a tapestry of tales that seamlessly intertwine to form a vibrant landscape, which, despite the passage of many years, continues to linger in the corridors of my mind and influence my contemplations."
"In the halcyon days of my youth, my father imparted to me a piece of multifaceted wisdom, a nugget of profound insight, a tapestry of tales that seamlessly intertwine to form a vibrant landscape, a testament to his experiences, into which I often delve, and which, despite the passage of many years, continues to linger in the corridors of my mind and influence my contemplations."
Added delve in for good measure.
This side of a very good place.
The pretty and will be in bad place.
Soft is the dark time.
The last rich guy.
Bonus: The kinda neat tale of Benjamin thing that holds clothing together.
"but this might be good for people trying to learn!" Actually, it's worse. If you read the original book and compare it to the new text, you're not gonna get a version that's easier to understand. Look at the two examples.
The original text uses the word "vulnerable". The changed version just... removes the word. It doesn't explain it, or replace it with a synonym. It just deletes it. How does that help anyone understand?
I think the appeal in language learning would probably be getting to read adult literature covering complex topics while still at an intermediate level. While focusing on vocabulary acquisition is king in both native or non-native languages, I do get a little sick of Peppa Pig as early input . . . and the hotties at the bars are often way behind on the multi-season plot of Curious George.
Also any metaphors are completely lost to the AI and reader as a result. So any level of abstraction is outright harder if not impossible to comprehend through this
Yeah, and even humans can have trouble with that. In *The Return of the King*, Sam tells somebody else to turn over a new leaf, and the old Swedish translation translates that literally, so that Sam tells the guy to move an actual leaf from a tree around.
And because of the removal, the meaning of the sentence has completely changed.
I don’t remember the line, but I’m willing to bet the narrator is trying to emphasize just how much of an impact his father’s words had on him. The word “vulnerable” implies the words may have been negative, or had a negative effect.
Furthermore, “Turning over in my head” implies some level of deep thought, introspection, and/or interpretation done by the narrator. It’s a very different tone than just “I’ve been thinking about it a lot”. I think about pizza a lot, nobody gives a shit.
Maximize your reading potential by never reading any book the way it's written!
Next up, maximize your weight-lifting potential by never lifting any heavy weights!
i unironically say that i picked up the underground man last year and its something i had to indulge in few paragraphs at a time...
Either i am loosing brain power rapidly or that book was written in a way that is somehow hard for me to understand and swallow.
Agreed. I read a Ligotti story that I fixed personally. I changed, "Its expressiveness was all in that face with its pale and pitted complexion, its slightly pointed nose and delicate lips, and its dead puppet eyes that did not seem able to fix or focus themselves upon anything but only gazed with an unchanging expression of dreamy malignance, an utterly nonsensical expression of stupefied viciousness and cruelty. So whenever this puppet creature first appeared I avoided looking at its face..."
to
"It was scary"
“So in this city in a mountain we heard some penguin calls and it was super-duper spooky. That shit was *wack*, yo.”
- HP Lovecraft’s “In the Mountains of Madness”
uj/ can’t wait to hear people saying “reading a book via ‘magibook’ is JUST AS VALID IF NOT BETTER than reading the original!!” Or something to that effect in like 5 years
Bruh I’m gonna cry this is so bad 😭 there rly is an epidemic of anti-intellectualism, ppl just don’t want to bother exercising their brains anymore. That, and half the population needs to retake literature classes…nobody knows what media literacy is and it bleeds into real life 💀
this has huge potential IN NON-FICTION! I would kill to have some NON-FICTION papers that were written in this somewhat unnecessary prose (generally bc of scholarly elitism I'd guess) be simplified so I don't have to pause every few seconds to define a term considered commonplace in the field of study. However advertising it to simplify FICTION? Thats how you get the info out with little to none of the emotion or nuance out of it, AND THE EMOTION AND NUANCE ARE THE POINT. I'm so sure that if you put animal farm into this, it comes out looking like an edgelord's first attempt at a fairytale. Ugh AI is so annoying
Agree completely with you about the fiction part, but the highfalutin' prose is usually because the text is written for people who understand the subject already.
>so I don't have to pause every few seconds to define a term considered commonplace in the field of study.
What I mean is, if a term is considered commonplace in the field that the text is about, it becomes tedious if the writer has to explain that term to an audience that, mostly, already knows that term. It'd be like reading *The Baby-Sitters Club*, where the second chapter in every darn book (except the first one) explained who the members are.
A text in advanced molecular biology should assume that the reader already knows the standard terms of molecular biology, IMO.
You hit the nail right on the head here. Simplifying scientific articles would be a boon for getting more people into any given field.
But AI-bros don’t care about actually helping people, they just want to burn everything down and put themselves on top with no effort, b/c they’re salty over being too dogshit stupid to read, write, or draw.
Finally, I may achieve my dream of releasing my novel with a built in difficulty setting. It'll range from *Preschooler* to *Connoisseur*, with the latter featuring 1,500 additional pages, 700 of which stem simply from the addition of adjectives and the usage of the longest words I can find in the thesaurus. It'll also be written in my fictional world's constructed language.
Life sucks, no happy, I wanna die (preferably with pretty girl) - No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
Badly closeted gay artist paints pretty portrait of his not-crush with a big ego. Portrait ages instead of the person. Person is bad, hates portrait for reflecting his souls. Kills artist, goes crazy, kills himself -Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Reminds me of this article about space advertisements and some guy commented "If i see Coke ads in the night sky i will become a terrorist".
I feel a similar way about this.
Then again, this might be a good sign. If AI companies are this desperate to find a use case, it has to mean the darkest night is beyond us. I have noticed this for quiet a few.... all "AI First" Companies. None of them have a real use case. And if Stability AI is to be believed, they managed to spend 100 Million USD to earn 10 Million. Solid 90% lose of investment. Which goes to show that making garbage "digital """"""""""""Art"""""""""""" " does not actually justify multi trillion dollar market caps.
Same with Chat bots tbh. Sure when ChatGPT came out, it was interesting but if *this* is the use case, idk man. The Book market is already laughably small compared to like any other industry. What possible impact can these Models truly have on the economy ?
It truly is all just a big bubble. The dumbest one yet. At least with the Housing Market Crash some people got a House. What do we get from this ? Butchery of Classics ? Shitty drawings ?
There's some publications of Shakespeare that has a side by side translation of the plays into modern, 5th grade English. I like those because
1. Shakespearean English is genuinely really difficult at times.
2. It doesn't serve as a replacement to the original script, just a tool to help understand what it means at times.
But yeah, The Great Gatbsy is supposed to be a book high-schoolers read. It really shouldn't be given this treatment...
Book with finely crafted prose with metaphor, characterises the narrator, and uses words at a greater than third grade level = hard.
Book with none of the things that makes the book interesting = easy.
Got it!
Take the color out of all your paintings while you're at it, we wouldn't want anyone to strain their eyes when they first walk in from outside would we?
I feel like a better option would be to create an app with annotations that explain what's being said and potentially give historical insight and clearer context, that way, you can learn more and understand what is being said without losing the original wording. Otherwise if you don't care at all about the book and don't want to learn better literacy and writing skills, why bother reading a watered down version at all?
I accidentally started reading the “youth” version of killers of the flower moon. Got about a page through (Libby app reading in my phone) before I realized the language was a tad off and oversimplified went and clicked on the cover photo and it said “youth” print or something. I get it for like highschool students who may be in remedial reading classes but reducing somethin like this from gatsby is cruel to the work
If it's a matter of learning English, reading books that were meant to be simple seems better. Better to read actual YA books and middle grade books.
EDIT: What I mean is, an actual YA or middle grade book was written by a human, who was trying to make the prose sound good. This app doesn't do that. It focuses on simple prose, but not on *good* prose. I imagine that the end result will be pretty boring to read.
It’s also stripping out nuance.
A skilled writer could convey the narrator’s state of mind without using the word “vulnerable”, but the AI doesn’t know to do that because it’s just blindly replacing sentences with simpler ones, not thinking about what the original prose conveys about the characters and looking for another way to express that.
Like you say, the best bet for a language learner is to read books that are written simply. There’s a reason why generations of French learners read Le Petit Prince: because it’s a great story told with simple language, and was always intended to be that way.
Honestly? I see no harm in this. It seems like a good way to make books more accessible. I go to a public school and reading classic literature out loud takes us a lot of time because my classmates genuinely don’t know all the words- recent examples are ‘consequence’, ‘determine’ and ‘quick’. Sometimes it’s because English isn’t their first language, or ya know because our education system is shit and not everyone has something to help them at home. It’s a great privilege to be able to fully understand classic books. I see no issue with simplifying language so that more people can read good stories.
"This is literally 1984" -1984
No. This is literally what happened in Fahrenheit 451
"This is literally Fahrenheit 451." -1984
"i fuckin' died omg" -me in 1984, during a 451° summer heatwave
No no Brave New World
We already say shit like "unalived" bc of people being superstitious on tiktok
More like Harrison Burgeron.
Burgeron what? The grill I hope 🍔
"It was thirteen o'clock on a cold spring day."
And other sentences said by deranged Europeans
Jorjor wel
More like word-minimizing.
Literally "Newspeak" from George Orwell's *1984*
Peepee poopoo man ded -War and Peace by Russian Man
I never understood the power of Tolstoy until this very moment. Beautiful. 
Tell me more. You are now breathing manually.
Jokes on you. My tongue sits comfortably in my mouth.
#You are skipping some important steps in your reasoning regarding the fact that “most of the time” when you discover a thing, that thing’s lifespan will end in about the same time as the time it spent from its inception to the time you discovered it
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
But have you considered the effects that bears have on polar ice caps?
It was good time, it was bad time, it was smart time, it was dumb time... - Charlie Dick
If we average it out, it was an ordinary time.
Some people thought it was a good time, and some didn’t. -Christmas Carol guy
It was a red time it was a blue time
It was a one fish time, it was a two fish time
How this be? Grug read more!
1 time 2 time red time blue time -choking hazard
We're rowing in our boats. Uh oh, they're going backwards! **😳** -The Great Gatsby
✍️ 🔥
Bread man sad - The Miz
Did you knoe they originally wanted to call it "war, what is it good for"?
I saw a big fish and I got scared. -Dagon by some minecraft guy idfk
Ooo. I loved his book "The Dumb-Dumb"
Yes. I also loved Annie Karen In A. I never did find out what she was in though!
Too hard to read. Can you explain it in simpler words?
You have my attention
No thanks, ill stick to reading the classics as penned and pretending i understand the words.
Reminds me of that guy who hates translations “I read everything in its original language even if I don't speak it. I have read the entirety of Les misérables in French, Divine Comedy in Italian, Don Quijote in Spanish and Brothers Karamazov in Russia, without understanding a single word.”
I respect it
There is no man more based o7
reminds me of Nigel Richard's https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/winner-of-french-scrabble-title-does-not-speak-french
I read *Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus* in a well-written Swedish translation, and I *still* didn't understand a single word!
Indubitably good sir
And a very underbubbly good sir to you!
Finally I don’t have to fucking read anymore.
Reading? I been putting Wikipedia synopsis of books on google translate and let it read it to me
Fuck that noise, I just read the blurb and then mentally fill in the blanks.
You read the blurb? I just make up a plot based on whatever the person I'm talking to tells me.
Meh. Just use the universal plot line. They fell in love. Someone died. The end.
you make it up? i just don't even fucking bother. person tells me, end of.
You let someone talk to you? I just judge the book by its cover.
You look at the cover? I go to the bar, get smashed, and hear pieces of it from across a noisy room.
Here's the secret... you never did.
Everything is weird and sad. I dunno what happened. Jazz music is cool tho. - A collection of works by Haruki Murakami.
Two moons and freaking cat people!
Stir fried peppers, radio jazz, sex with minors, awkward cum.
Oh, I thought that was a commentary of live in the time of AI.
Is there a reverse? Like I feed AI my shit writing and it becomes classic prose?
Chatgpt be all "In the halcyon days of my youth, my father imparted to me a piece of wisdom, a nugget of profound insight, which, despite the passage of many years, continues to linger in the corridors of my mind and influence my contemplations."
Gotta throw in a 'tapestry' for good measure.
"In the halcyon days of my youth, my father imparted to me a piece of wisdom, a nugget of profound insight, a *tapestry of tales*, which, despite the passage of many years, continues to linger in the corridors of my mind and influence my contemplations."
Why don't you add a bit of 'multifaceted", "vibrant landscape", and "seamlessly intertwine" to the mix?
Only ask and chatgpt shall deliver. "In the halcyon days of my youth, my father imparted to me a piece of multifaceted wisdom, a nugget of profound insight, a tapestry of tales that seamlessly intertwine to form a vibrant landscape, which, despite the passage of many years, continues to linger in the corridors of my mind and influence my contemplations."
Sir you have missed the most important ingredient, ‘a testament to’
"In the halcyon days of my youth, my father imparted to me a piece of multifaceted wisdom, a nugget of profound insight, a tapestry of tales that seamlessly intertwine to form a vibrant landscape, a testament to his experiences, into which I often delve, and which, despite the passage of many years, continues to linger in the corridors of my mind and influence my contemplations." Added delve in for good measure.
His dad just told him "your fly's down"
Me trying to hit nano word counts
You're the chat gpt now
AI overuses "delve", so don't forget to include it.
This reads like an lsat reading comprehension passage
r/increasinglyverbose
Chatgpt or least pretentious future author on r writing?
Wet dream of every fanfic author
The Kinda Good Gatsby.
This side of a very good place. The pretty and will be in bad place. Soft is the dark time. The last rich guy. Bonus: The kinda neat tale of Benjamin thing that holds clothing together.
The Aight Gatsby
The Mediocre Gatsby.
The Fucking Awful Gatsby
Spoiler alert!
Actually, he was just a pretty good gatsby.
The Not Great Gatsby
"but this might be good for people trying to learn!" Actually, it's worse. If you read the original book and compare it to the new text, you're not gonna get a version that's easier to understand. Look at the two examples. The original text uses the word "vulnerable". The changed version just... removes the word. It doesn't explain it, or replace it with a synonym. It just deletes it. How does that help anyone understand?
I think the appeal in language learning would probably be getting to read adult literature covering complex topics while still at an intermediate level. While focusing on vocabulary acquisition is king in both native or non-native languages, I do get a little sick of Peppa Pig as early input . . . and the hotties at the bars are often way behind on the multi-season plot of Curious George.
Also any metaphors are completely lost to the AI and reader as a result. So any level of abstraction is outright harder if not impossible to comprehend through this
Yeah, and even humans can have trouble with that. In *The Return of the King*, Sam tells somebody else to turn over a new leaf, and the old Swedish translation translates that literally, so that Sam tells the guy to move an actual leaf from a tree around.
And because of the removal, the meaning of the sentence has completely changed. I don’t remember the line, but I’m willing to bet the narrator is trying to emphasize just how much of an impact his father’s words had on him. The word “vulnerable” implies the words may have been negative, or had a negative effect. Furthermore, “Turning over in my head” implies some level of deep thought, introspection, and/or interpretation done by the narrator. It’s a very different tone than just “I’ve been thinking about it a lot”. I think about pizza a lot, nobody gives a shit.
i love The Big Cat's Bee
This hurts my soul.
Couldn’t have said it better.
Maximize your reading potential by never reading any book the way it's written! Next up, maximize your weight-lifting potential by never lifting any heavy weights!
Maximize your potential for making an impact in the world by jumping off a 12 story building.
Land on a pedestrian for bonus points
Outjerked again!
Double Plus Good!
"Some shit's good, some shit's fucked up." - Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
our generation is absolutely cooked
I wish I were cooked. Or baked. Or fried.
We are deep-fried with ice cubes as good measure .
Oh, don't worry. We will be.
with a side of ranch, hell yeah
I hate my big brother he steals all my food and won't stop staring. -1984
The Great Gatsby isn’t a hard read. Source: this book snob.
Unironically it isn’t if you’ve read any classics beforehand, even the ones for children.
I’m having a hard time with The Apple In The Dark by Clarice Lispector. It’s beautiful, but it isn’t intuitive.
Never heard of it before. Sounds like an interesting read.
i unironically say that i picked up the underground man last year and its something i had to indulge in few paragraphs at a time... Either i am loosing brain power rapidly or that book was written in a way that is somehow hard for me to understand and swallow.
You can also turn a hard book into a soft book by placing it into a blender, or perhaps a bucket of water.
Easily digestible content.
/uj I hate everything about this. BURN IT ALL DOWN.
Me baby, daddy word, me long think
The Decent Gatsby
Underrated comment.
Agreed. I read a Ligotti story that I fixed personally. I changed, "Its expressiveness was all in that face with its pale and pitted complexion, its slightly pointed nose and delicate lips, and its dead puppet eyes that did not seem able to fix or focus themselves upon anything but only gazed with an unchanging expression of dreamy malignance, an utterly nonsensical expression of stupefied viciousness and cruelty. So whenever this puppet creature first appeared I avoided looking at its face..." to "It was scary"
Ooo what book is that?
/uj It's from "The Clown Puppet" in *Teatro Grottesco.* Fantastic collection of short stories and probably my biggest influence on me as a writer.
"When I woke up I was a big bug. It sucked and then I died."
Kafka?
From the same guy be like “I got arrested and then I died”
This is like that piece of paper SpongeBob wrote “The” on BEFORE the episode.
“So in this city in a mountain we heard some penguin calls and it was super-duper spooky. That shit was *wack*, yo.” - HP Lovecraft’s “In the Mountains of Madness”
This is the plot to Fahrenheit 451. People wanted shorter and shorter books until they were banned entirely.
uj/ can’t wait to hear people saying “reading a book via ‘magibook’ is JUST AS VALID IF NOT BETTER than reading the original!!” Or something to that effect in like 5 years
You are right, but it wont take 5 years... RemindMe! 1 Year
Isn't reading ableist though? How would they dare!
thank god I'll never have to read another book again at this rate
Bruh I’m gonna cry this is so bad 😭 there rly is an epidemic of anti-intellectualism, ppl just don’t want to bother exercising their brains anymore. That, and half the population needs to retake literature classes…nobody knows what media literacy is and it bleeds into real life 💀
So it turns out book burning isn’t the worst thing you can do to classic literature
Hate.
Bruh, I can swim outta here. Swear to God. bet them mother fuckers can't fight me the whole way. - The Willows 1907
A shark takes forever to eat an old man's fish - old man and the sea
"fishing hard."
The people that this is for are people who do nt read books. This is for high school teens aiming to shortcut their way through required reading
Cliff's Notes, since 1958
What, you mean you didn't already use this on The Stupendously Famished Larval Stage of Members of the Order Lepidoptera?
No mention of electrolytes, so we're still good.
Can’t believe all those people died in that train accident. Skill issue tbh - Atlas Shrugged
My app is even even more effective: When dumb baby daddy speak. Still thinky today about speaky speaky
God this would turn so many books into comedies
this has huge potential IN NON-FICTION! I would kill to have some NON-FICTION papers that were written in this somewhat unnecessary prose (generally bc of scholarly elitism I'd guess) be simplified so I don't have to pause every few seconds to define a term considered commonplace in the field of study. However advertising it to simplify FICTION? Thats how you get the info out with little to none of the emotion or nuance out of it, AND THE EMOTION AND NUANCE ARE THE POINT. I'm so sure that if you put animal farm into this, it comes out looking like an edgelord's first attempt at a fairytale. Ugh AI is so annoying
Agree completely with you about the fiction part, but the highfalutin' prose is usually because the text is written for people who understand the subject already. >so I don't have to pause every few seconds to define a term considered commonplace in the field of study. What I mean is, if a term is considered commonplace in the field that the text is about, it becomes tedious if the writer has to explain that term to an audience that, mostly, already knows that term. It'd be like reading *The Baby-Sitters Club*, where the second chapter in every darn book (except the first one) explained who the members are. A text in advanced molecular biology should assume that the reader already knows the standard terms of molecular biology, IMO.
You hit the nail right on the head here. Simplifying scientific articles would be a boon for getting more people into any given field. But AI-bros don’t care about actually helping people, they just want to burn everything down and put themselves on top with no effort, b/c they’re salty over being too dogshit stupid to read, write, or draw.
Who even is this for, who can't read just a few more words???
A lot of these are for ESL and people with more limited literacy.
Jesus fucking Christ
I'd like to see how AI interprets and simplifies "Jesus fucking Christ."
"God." would be my guess honestly
I'd go with "Grifter."
Is there a reverse option to make then excruciatingly complex?
Finally, I may achieve my dream of releasing my novel with a built in difficulty setting. It'll range from *Preschooler* to *Connoisseur*, with the latter featuring 1,500 additional pages, 700 of which stem simply from the addition of adjectives and the usage of the longest words I can find in the thesaurus. It'll also be written in my fictional world's constructed language.
Also known as: how to ruin books.
"One fis-huh tw-ow fis-huh" "Are you serious?" "You picked a hard one on purpose!" "It's a doctor Suess book you dipshit"
Brought to you by Brawndo: The thirst mutilator! It's got what plants crave!
Life sucks, no happy, I wanna die (preferably with pretty girl) - No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai Badly closeted gay artist paints pretty portrait of his not-crush with a big ego. Portrait ages instead of the person. Person is bad, hates portrait for reflecting his souls. Kills artist, goes crazy, kills himself -Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Anybody else marking off another rule in their “Idiocracy” bingo?
Reminds me of this article about space advertisements and some guy commented "If i see Coke ads in the night sky i will become a terrorist". I feel a similar way about this. Then again, this might be a good sign. If AI companies are this desperate to find a use case, it has to mean the darkest night is beyond us. I have noticed this for quiet a few.... all "AI First" Companies. None of them have a real use case. And if Stability AI is to be believed, they managed to spend 100 Million USD to earn 10 Million. Solid 90% lose of investment. Which goes to show that making garbage "digital """"""""""""Art"""""""""""" " does not actually justify multi trillion dollar market caps. Same with Chat bots tbh. Sure when ChatGPT came out, it was interesting but if *this* is the use case, idk man. The Book market is already laughably small compared to like any other industry. What possible impact can these Models truly have on the economy ? It truly is all just a big bubble. The dumbest one yet. At least with the Housing Market Crash some people got a House. What do we get from this ? Butchery of Classics ? Shitty drawings ?
There's some publications of Shakespeare that has a side by side translation of the plays into modern, 5th grade English. I like those because 1. Shakespearean English is genuinely really difficult at times. 2. It doesn't serve as a replacement to the original script, just a tool to help understand what it means at times. But yeah, The Great Gatbsy is supposed to be a book high-schoolers read. It really shouldn't be given this treatment...
I'd say one of the major ups of a book like this is how it expands your vocabulary but ok you do you
There was good shit and bad shit.
My colleagues need this for my emails. I'm notoriously verbose with internal emails
/uj Cliffnotes already exists and isn't AI lmao
"Whew, Buddy. That sucked." -All Quiet on the Western Front
Book with finely crafted prose with metaphor, characterises the narrator, and uses words at a greater than third grade level = hard. Book with none of the things that makes the book interesting = easy. Got it!
Take the color out of all your paintings while you're at it, we wouldn't want anyone to strain their eyes when they first walk in from outside would we?
Why use many word when few word do trick?
I want to feed it Finnegan's Wake
Great idea! Now I can consume every single classical book on my own without questioning my life choices! I sure hope it isn't used to harm via AI!
Oh shit we're stuck on an island we're totally not gonna start fighting or some shit - Lord of the flies
The final nail in the literature coffin. I hope whoever came up with this burns in Hell.
We are making ourselves dumber
I feel like a better option would be to create an app with annotations that explain what's being said and potentially give historical insight and clearer context, that way, you can learn more and understand what is being said without losing the original wording. Otherwise if you don't care at all about the book and don't want to learn better literacy and writing skills, why bother reading a watered down version at all?
My name is Ismael. I was broke af so I went whaling. The captain was a total nutcase
can it turn my easy book into a hard book? the hard one has more words. I’m trying to hit 10 pages!
The Double Plus Good Gatsby
A smol person lives in a hole. The hole was clean and cozy. - The Hobbit
I still don't understand. Could someone summarize The Great Gatsby in a few lines of emojis? Text is hard for me.
🤵🏼👀🤵🏼♀️ 🤵🏼😏🤵🏼♀️ 🤵🏼🎉🎉🎉👋🏻 🤵🏼♀️👀🎉🎉 🤵🏼♀️👀🤵🏼 🤵🏼❤️🤵🏼♀️ ????? I forget what happens 🤵🏼♀️💀💀☠️☠️
Ugh no this is an awful idea
Noooo how am I supposed to reach my word count now????
I'm pretty sure the show "The Critic" was making fun of this idea like twenty years ago?
Plus good, comrade, double plus good!
There it is again, that funny feeling
r/decreasinglyverbose
Where is this app? I need this to laugh at with my own eyes.
Noooo it's only on Apple.
Tonight, we shall butcher every book we come across.
Congrats, you ruined it.
Oh lordie no.
Hehe hard
I accidentally started reading the “youth” version of killers of the flower moon. Got about a page through (Libby app reading in my phone) before I realized the language was a tad off and oversimplified went and clicked on the cover photo and it said “youth” print or something. I get it for like highschool students who may be in remedial reading classes but reducing somethin like this from gatsby is cruel to the work
Brawndo, it’s what readers crave.
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that chads be thirsty.
Can you imagine being like THANK GOD I WAS TOO DUMB FOR THE DIFFICULT LANGUAGE THANKS FOR DUMBING IT DOWN FOR ME!
I put a guy in a wall and he died - The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allen Poe
The Mildly Adequate Gasbag
If this catches on, I will become a terrorist
I get this for like, children, but then again why would a child read a book that hard unless they could already do it without the help?
/uj This could be helpful for people learning English!
If it's a matter of learning English, reading books that were meant to be simple seems better. Better to read actual YA books and middle grade books. EDIT: What I mean is, an actual YA or middle grade book was written by a human, who was trying to make the prose sound good. This app doesn't do that. It focuses on simple prose, but not on *good* prose. I imagine that the end result will be pretty boring to read.
It’s also stripping out nuance. A skilled writer could convey the narrator’s state of mind without using the word “vulnerable”, but the AI doesn’t know to do that because it’s just blindly replacing sentences with simpler ones, not thinking about what the original prose conveys about the characters and looking for another way to express that. Like you say, the best bet for a language learner is to read books that are written simply. There’s a reason why generations of French learners read Le Petit Prince: because it’s a great story told with simple language, and was always intended to be that way.
Honestly? I see no harm in this. It seems like a good way to make books more accessible. I go to a public school and reading classic literature out loud takes us a lot of time because my classmates genuinely don’t know all the words- recent examples are ‘consequence’, ‘determine’ and ‘quick’. Sometimes it’s because English isn’t their first language, or ya know because our education system is shit and not everyone has something to help them at home. It’s a great privilege to be able to fully understand classic books. I see no issue with simplifying language so that more people can read good stories.