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    Isn’t this already a thing? Like re-writing older vernacular English works in modern English?

    But also, Gatsby is hardly old English. The sentence pre “simplifying” is just longer. There’s still some people who would enjoy or benefit from that, I suppose. But AI is going to absolutely mangle the tone and the essence of the book in doing so. It’s not just a matter of reducing word count, or at that point your book will increasingly become a summary of itself.

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      It’s a higher grade reading level. It’s not just longer, but also harder to understand for teenagers who don’t have the same vocabulary as adults

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        34 days ago

        Yeah no I can see how that could be the case. In the example though, I’m not sure what vocabulary is from a higher grade reading level. The word “vulnerable”?

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          Turning over in my head is an expression that’s also part of vocabulary, there’s no physical turning, it’s a form of speech