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axerton:
I put in the To be or not to be monologue from Hamlet in there, and it appears that it cuts out all of the small insubstantial words, which ironically means that the words "To" "Be" "Or" and "Not" were all cut. Also I think I may have made a few spelling mistakes but I was doing it from memory with nothing to refer to.
Elizzybeth:
--- Quote from: HouseMDfan on 29 Oct 2008, 23:59 ---All of those books don't seem to be college material...more high school. I read half of them during my internment in the hell hole that is Senior High School. but oh well.
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Hawthorne, Cooper, and Poe are canonical, definitely, and that's part of the interest in an M.A. English course. Why have they continued to be read, in every high school English classroom in America for going on 200 years? And why are they read rather than authors such as Susanna Rowson? Charlotte Temple was the most popular novel in America at its time, but no one's heard of it today.
Consider that Shakespeare is commonly read in high school classrooms, but a university campus would be remiss not to have a Shakespeare scholar holed up in an office somewhere in the English department--just because books are read in high school doesn't mean they're not worthy of critical literary study.
(Also you probably didn't read 400 pages per week in your high school English class.)
Eris:
--- Quote from: axerton on 30 Oct 2008, 00:20 ---it appears that it cuts out all of the small insubstantial words
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You can change that, there are the little menus at the top of the appelet that gives you the option to change the layout and colour, font and whether to take out common words. Some of these would look better if people played with the colour schemes and the fonts; it's kind of half the fun for me, to make it look more like what the text means (if that makes sense).
tragic_pizza:
The Scots Confession from the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s Book of Confessions.
I modified it to max 1,000 words, and decided to omit common words.
axerton:
ah well, in that case an improvement
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