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Re: Telescopictext

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This would be a great way to supplement dense text for comprehension purposes and for learning new vocabulary. Learning moments are different for different people, this makes it one-size-fits-all.

Except, people with OCPD would click everything through, just to see if they missed anything, and really not make much headway into reading at all.

For people with OCPD, OCPD is obsessive–compulsive personality disorder.

Re: Telescopictext

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post #53
post #21

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Or maybe just write the article, and present the most-important bits first, starting with the headline. Then, the first paragraph or so would cover the important points, and as you kept reading, it'd get less and less important.

That's exactly how all news stories are written. Unless you were making a joke.

Yes, that's the point.

Sadly, it's pretty trivial to disprove this by counterexample.

Re: Telescopictext

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post #43

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Thank you for the TLDR. I wondered whether the text would just keep expanding forever... In some ways I am sad that it did not.

The only way to make it expand forever would be to support recursion. Would be interesting what texts you could come up with that. Kind of a textual Mandelbrot set.

It was a dark and stormy night. The captain and his men were huddled around a campfire. The captain turned to Jake and said "Jake, tell us a story.", so Jake began his story: "It was a dark and stormy night. The captain and his men were huddled around the campfire..."

Re: Telescopictext

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post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the TLDR. I wondered whether the text would just keep expanding forever... In some ways I am sad that it did not.

The only way to make it expand forever would be to support recursion. Would be interesting what texts you could come up with that. Kind of a textual Mandelbrot set.

Perhaps using some kind of Markov chain process? It could be amusing, but would be more interesting with some kind of understanding of parts of speech.

Re: Telescopictext

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This is great. All too often I've posted some rant, knowing it must be very concise to get the point across to soundbite readers, yet wanting to provide details to address obvious criticisms, yet having to somehow find a balance between minimal meme transfer vs. encyclopedic thoroughness overwhelming the basic meme. Hope this can be turned into a blogging/commenting tool.

There's got to be an easy HTML template for doing this without linking to an external website.

I can see this in terms of offering a Javascript for embedding in web pages.
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