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It isn't a pain point for most people. In addition to that, for some people like myself, it is the opposite of a pain point as I don't mind learning new words b

It isn't a pain point for most people. In addition to that, for some people like myself, it is the opposite of a pain point as I don't mind learning new words by looking them up.

amichail 11y ago
What's wrong with learning new words WITHOUT looking them up?
- Piskvorrr 11y ago
  It does sound as an interesting experiment. I wonder if there's a thesaurus mapping English to (a) simple English...although I can imagine that output of such experiment would not be exactly fluent. I'm not sure that I'd be able to keep up with all the state - 1.story, 2.visual, 3.spoken word, 4.simplified subtitles and their map to 3 (even "normal" subtitles are pretty distracting). edit: Let me abuse another classic for an example - something like that (emphasized words would be the subtitles)? "All ancient land name is split into three parts, one of which the tribe name live, the tribe name another, those who in their own language are called tribe name, in ours tribe name, the third. All these differ from each other in language, what they do and laws. The river Garonne splits the Gauls from the Aquitani; the Marne and the Seine split them from the Belgae. Of all these, the Belgae are the most brave, because they are most far from the Roman cities and development of [our] part of the world, and sellers not often go to them and bring those things which tend to make weak the mind; and they are the closest to the tribe name, who live beyond the Rhine, with whom they are all the time making war; for which reason the tribe name also are better than the rest of the Gauls in being brave, as they fight with the Germans in almost daily fights, when they either chase away them from their own lands, or themselves attack on their borders.
  - amichail 11y ago
    Instead of simplified subtitles, you would just see the definition of a rare word that was just said.

It isn't a pain point for most people. In addition to that, for some people like myself, it is the opposite of a pain point as I don't mind learning new words by looking them up.

amichail 11y ago

What's wrong with learning new words WITHOUT looking them up?

Piskvorrr 11y ago
It does sound as an interesting experiment. I wonder if there's a thesaurus mapping English to (a) simple English...although I can imagine that output of such experiment would not be exactly fluent. I'm not sure that I'd be able to keep up with all the state - 1.story, 2.visual, 3.spoken word, 4.simplified subtitles and their map to 3 (even "normal" subtitles are pretty distracting). edit: Let me abuse another classic for an example - something like that (emphasized words would be the subtitles)? "All ancient land name is split into three parts, one of which the tribe name live, the tribe name another, those who in their own language are called tribe name, in ours tribe name, the third. All these differ from each other in language, what they do and laws. The river Garonne splits the Gauls from the Aquitani; the Marne and the Seine split them from the Belgae. Of all these, the Belgae are the most brave, because they are most far from the Roman cities and development of [our] part of the world, and sellers not often go to them and bring those things which tend to make weak the mind; and they are the closest to the tribe name, who live beyond the Rhine, with whom they are all the time making war; for which reason the tribe name also are better than the rest of the Gauls in being brave, as they fight with the Germans in almost daily fights, when they either chase away them from their own lands, or themselves attack on their borders.
- amichail 11y ago
  Instead of simplified subtitles, you would just see the definition of a rare word that was just said.