flightcommander
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Post by flightcommander on Jun 20, 2017 22:11:06 GMT -6
For your reading pleasure, may I recommend: standardebooks.orgLots of good stuff here, all free, and high quality.
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Post by foxroe on Jun 20, 2017 23:34:40 GMT -6
Very cool. I'm not sure that I like the "tasteful modernization" aspect though - editor opinion tends to disrupt the original language of the material.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 5:40:24 GMT -6
Very cool. I'm not sure that I like the "tasteful modernization" aspect though - editor opinion tends to disrupt the original language of the material. The example given seems to be quite light. For instance changing develope to develop and removing hyphens that were once used, but are not used in modern English. I saw several books I like and I will take a look at their version and see if it is indeed that light. They don't have a lot of stuff yet, but I saw several I have never read that sound intriguing.
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flightcommander
Level 6 Magician
"I become drunk as circumstances dictate."
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Post by flightcommander on Jun 21, 2017 23:25:19 GMT -6
not sure that I like the "tasteful modernization" aspect though That's fair, although I do note that each volume is edited in public on Github, and so has both a history of edits, and a facility for raising issues and proposing/discussing changes. I think this is a workflow superior to most others for producing highly readable texts with community input. I remember a university summer spent optically collating two editions of a Thomas Carlyle text using an iron contraption essentially the size of a video arcade machine. How times have have changed!
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Post by foxroe on Jun 22, 2017 5:30:25 GMT -6
not sure that I like the "tasteful modernization" aspect though That's fair, although I do note that each volume is edited in public on Github, and so has both a history of edits, and a facility for raising issues and proposing/discussing changes. I think this is a workflow superior to most others for producing highly readable texts with community input. I remember a university summer spent optically collating two editions of a Thomas Carlyle text using an iron contraption essentially the size of a video arcade machine. How times have have changed! Github, huh? Neat. Being an Open Source user/proponent, I have a general understanding of how it works. Having lots of eyeballs on a project is always a plus. I'll have to keep an eye on that site. Thanks for the link, BTW!
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