> To everyone else, such as the vast majority of the NYT's audience, they are purely a distraction in the same sense that any foreign word you can't pronounce

> To everyone else, such as the vast majority of the NYT's audience, they are purely a distraction in the same sense that any foreign word you can't pronounce is a distraction. I thought the point of reading is to learn new things? Words and pronounciation are unremarkable now?