Ha, 20 years later, AI has finally improved on the old late-90's language filters. Remember the "jive filter", anyone?
Victorian Hacker News
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#42Along similar lines: If PHP Were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ Reddit Proper: https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/
What a splendid piece of entertainment! Thank you for sharing it with us, my dear fellow.
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#43Hear, hear! Wot wot.
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#45"The time is not ripe for idle banter on the vagaries of the world." has a real "Free Beer Tomorrow" energy to it.
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#46I wonder if there's an Victorian -> contemporary English filter. While I actually like Victorian prose, I know some people (especially non-native English speakers) are put off from reading Charles Dickens and the like because of the Victorian style which can come across as stilted to to modern ear. Maybe a filter could be made to make Victorian prose seem more modern.
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#47I find this much more readable than the genuine article - kudos
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#48Great site but can the author of the site improve its readability for desktop users? I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox for example the Reader mode is not available which would also help. (I'm a regular web user, I know it's not great but I have no idea how to improve it) If anyone has good tips/tools/links for the author please reply with them.
A relevant quote from the linked article: > I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever. But for real, the styling is just copied from the original:…
That's so good I'm tempted to replace the existing rule with it.
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#49This reminded me of the "Victorian Laptop" that Justine Cassell and students worked on at the MIT Media Lab, in the late 1990s. IIRC, in the original idea, the Victorian Laptop hardware was an antique portable wood laptop desk, retrofitted with PC electronics and custom software, and the purpose was to relate/connect the user's thoughts in a particular location to the writings of others who've been in some similar co…
The temerity of linking a pdf without such marking as would give light to its nature... Quite undignified as the good sir imgabe has duely noted.
Respectfully yours, derac
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#50I wonder if there's an Victorian -> contemporary English filter. While I actually like Victorian prose, I know some people (especially non-native English speakers) are put off from reading Charles Dickens and the like because of the Victorian style which can come across as stilted to to modern ear. Maybe a filter could be made to make Victorian prose seem more modern.
Please don't. Half of the fun is the time travel into a different culture, or maybe even most of it.