Citizen.Coping: People read books to learn many languages. The method of "comprehensible input" requires reading books where 90% of the words are known. Many adults get children's books to accomplish this.

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

I want to ask the person who thought of this---have you ever READ a book? Do you know WHY people read books? I don't need my life turned into cliffs notes FFS

It's very handy for all those four year olds trying to read The Great Gatsby.

It's probably for people learning English.

How does this teach them how to read english?

People read books to learn many languages. The method of "comprehensible input" requires reading books where 90% of the words are known. Many adults get children's books to accomplish this.

And children's books are great for that, because a good children's book tells a complete, compelling story using the vocabulary and syntax chosen for that purpose. A more complex novel stripped down just becomes a boring and opaque string of incidents.

Do you read graphic novels in languages other than your oqn? Reading those & graded readers, a literal genre of books for language learners, they are very similar to graphic novels of classics in that it keeps the story and most of the language but removes most complex phrasing, conjugation, etc.

Not to mention authors go through a lot of time and trouble to produce art out of carefully chosen words, phrases strung together all to create an effect. That can be simplified, yes...but not without losing what you came for in the first place.

There are childrens, YA, and a graphic novel versiobs of Sapiens. They ALL have simplified language. It's so weird that people seem to not know that therr have always been simplified versions of published books. And I would say any translation is simplified. www.ynharari.com/book/graphic...

'Sapiens: A Graphic History' by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen & Daniel Casanavewww.ynharari.com 'Sapiens: A Graphic History' (launched 2020) is a radical adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book 'Sapiens' into 4-part graphic novel series. Co-written by Harari and David Vandermeulen and...

Translations and other simplifications can range from good to dire (Readers Digest, anyone?) but the good is only to the extent that they're presented as separate works of art, not a substitute for the original. Separately, LLM models can't do the work of a skilled human translator or simplifier.

Personally I don't think that it's particularly ethical to present things like "illustrated classics" or what have you to children or language learners anyway, just to create the illusion of a cultural canon. Let them have literature created with them in mind, like all other readers.

As you’ve pointed out in other areas, these are written by authors. AI generated works cannot compare.

You know what, I'm actually not interested in debating someone who thinks that this is a good idea and that it helps anyone.

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