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[–] m4xie@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

When people judge this, can they please consider those for whom English is not a first language?

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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Man I could have used this when reading Ulysses in college…

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[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Didn't J.K. Rowling do this with Harry Potter? She wrote the first book with simple words and slowly upped the difficulty every installment. Being a teacher for developmentally disabled kids, she knew that some of the books they were being forced to read were like throwing new swimmers into the deepend.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah JK Rowling really knows her As and B words and C words

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's decent of her.

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[–] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

WTH are the ods of me just having started reading this exact book yesterday ??? I am spooked!!

This sentence sounded way too familiar

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[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As if dumb people will read once we simplify the language

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of books I have read are overdone in word count with no added poetic beauty or anything along those lines. The only result of just making it a pain in the ass to read, especially for anyone with difficulties like where you lose your place, read several pages and remember none of it, etc.

I haven't read this book but I can say that this excerpt at least does not read like one of those to me.

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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I feel like I might like this. I'm an idiot and sometimes struggle to maintain attention reading. So give me a short sentence direct to the point and I'm good to go.

Mean while all my comments are novels with 3rd grade grammar and spelling

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