• m4xie@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

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

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      4 months ago

      If a text is out of your reach currently you can get to it later, as your skill in it improves.

      When you do this you’re just reading a completely different (worse) book.

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      4 months ago

      Even someone for whom English is an acquired language can appreciate literature. Being an English learner doesn’t make a person incapable of reading English literature.

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      4 months ago

      A better question for me in that case is what is it charging and what are better alternatives

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      4 months ago

      … or people with literacy issues, learning difficulties, or intellectual handicaps.

      Sure, “simplifying” a literary classic in this way may be in poor taste (although there already exist human written versions in easy language for english language learners), but using this for things like forms, letters, manuals, lists of instructions et cetera will be invaluable to a lot of people for whom it simply isn’t possible to simply learn more words.