Sometimes the intent is to make the reader pay more attention to a sentence, but I suspect the real issue is that your reading comprehension isn’t as strong as you think it is, and that you’ve decided to plant your feet and declare any sentence that you don’t immediately parse as “bad writing”.

Glad that you rate your own subjective opinions as true.

I’m sure people are going to ask the AI “translate this text into a reading level that is just ahead of mine so I still improve”

Except the simplified versions are made by humans who can preserve the flavor of the language and the important meanings, unlike this tool which is like replacing the Mona Lisa with text that says “woman sitting”.

You improve reading comprehension (like any skill) by challenging yourself. The AI text would only be a challenge for a brand new English learner.

Are you talking about some other book? Because the text in the image is extremely normal modern English.

Linguists aren’t behavioral psychologists or K-12 educators. Being challenged by unfamiliar language is an incredibly important experience in developing reading comprehension. It’s not that a bigger vocabulary makes you smarter, it’s that the process of understanding more complex language helps you both understand and formulate more complex ideas.

Tl;dr we should stop providing well-rounded educations and once it becomes obvious that a child is uninterested in more intellectual pursuits they should be put in a trade school.

I promise you Finnegan’s Wake is not required reading for any non-English major, and even then likely not until the graduate level (and probably only excerpts unless it’s a whole class on just the book).

Is this comment sarcastic? Because yes actually I do think that a firm grasp of language and rhetoric are incredibly valuable in both discussing and understanding all of those topics.

Tbh I have loved reading my whole life and especially when I was a kid. But every single book I ever had to read for a class was a slog that I could not get motivated for. At least for me, the simple fact that it was assigned reading destroyed my interest, even if it was a book that I would have enjoyed otherwise. I’ve heard similar stories from many people who never enjoyed reading until they started doing it of their own volition.

This could be useful if the information in the text is what you need, say a reference work or a historical account that you just need the facts from.

It’s a hideous mockery of art and creativity to use it on a novel, and completely destroys the author’s intent and the artistic impact of any passage. I can only imagine how dull and grey the experience of reading a whole book like this would be; like a meal made of sawdust and glue.

If they’re well written they don’t lack clarity. It’s just complex sentence construction. It might require a more deliberate reading, but it doesn’t make the meaning ambiguous.

No one talks about land usage for solar either. Which is a real shame, because with some relatively minor redesigns solar plants can be integrated into the ecosystem without causing massive damage, instead of what usually happens which is just clear-cutting a huge field and destroying any plant and animal life there.

That’s absurd. You don’t need to understand the inner workings of the kernel to know what a root account is. If you’re regularly encouraging people to install a new OS when you aren’t even confident in their ability to understand what a root account is, you’re not doing them any favors.

He’s very clearly trolling, the vast majority of PC games are playable on Deck, including the vast majority of the most well-reviewed games ever.

I legit cannot remember the last time I got a virus pirating a game. Probably in the Limewire days, ~20+ years ago.

I love taking my whole gaming pc setup with me to go visit my parents or take a flight, or just lugging it out to the porch for a nice evening of outdoor gaming.

If you’re installing an OS you should absolutely understand what the root account is. That’s like buying a car without understanding the concept of keys.

Not if your bartender is properly trained and not a lazy piece of shit.