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literacy filter

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Working similar to an online translator, a literacy filter could allow you to insert the url of a text website and have the filter the test though a thesaurus creating alternative wording. As well this would give you the option to see the article with a more rich and challenging vocabulary or a more simple and straightforward one.

When hurried, you could translate a website full of unfamiliar jargon into a concept you could quickly understand, or when you have more time, you could translate something simple like the entertainment section of a newspaper into a nearly undecipherable puzzle for yourself.

bobofthefuture, Sep 15 2009

Simple English Wiki http://simple.wikip....org/wiki/Main_Page
So... like this, but for all the interwebs? [DrWorm, Sep 15 2009]

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       All I need is my A.I. buddy socrates to read ten thousand scientific journals, and I can have a twenty page version of a one page scientific paper. Good Idea. +
Sparkyplugclean, Sep 15 2009
  

       Would it be a necessary prerequisite that the idea / article be written in comprehensible language, at the outset?
UnaBubba, Sep 16 2009
  
      
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