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Dr. Seuss and the 236 Words that Changed Reading Forever
- TomOfTTB 17y agoI've been thinking about this a lot lately. Not the Cat and the Hat specifically but the way our whole society is becoming one of visual learners and how we should really be looking ways to convey concepts using visual means and as few words as possible. Put it this way. Without pictures the Cat and Hat's 236 words could never tell the story. It would take thousands. Now look at the nearest 1,000 page programming book you can find and ask yourself (a) whether it could be told with much fewer words and (b) if it would be more efficient to do so. Anyway, just somewhere my brain has been wandering to that was slightly more crystallized by the post.
- gojomo 17y agoGreen Eggs and Ham uses only 50 words, 49 of which were monosyllabic.
- makmanalp 17y agoWhy are plurals counted separately? "Kite" and "kites" are the same word.