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Yeah it's called "thing explainer", but it's more like a "thing convoluter". It's a work humour, not a book of science.
by Tharkun 11y ago
Yeah it's called "thing explainer", but it's more like a "thing convoluter". It's a work humour, not a book of science.
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- tormeh 11y agoSome of the explanations are actually going into a textbook now, to accompany more traditional text. So it seems professionals disagree with you. I will concede that it might have been clearer with the top 2000 words or something, but that's my perspective and plenty of kids might disagree, especially those that have grown up with weird dialects or even sociolects like AAVE.
- readams 11y agoNo. He's doing some drawings for text books. There is no chance that the thing explainer 1000 words affectation will be adopted for the text book for the purpose of actual teaching.
- Tharkun 11y agoReally? That's interesting. Do you have a source for that? I can't imagine how talking about "bags of air" and "bags of yellow water" is any clearer than talking about "lungs" or "bladders".
- Silhouette 11y agoIt's a work humour, not a book of science. Indeed. I thought it was an interesting experiment. The results make it abundantly clear that 1,000 words are not enough to communicate about science and engineering topics effectively even at an introductory "plain English" level.