[HN Gopher] Hobbes: "Leviathan" in Modern English - Introduction
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       Hobbes: "Leviathan" in Modern English - Introduction
        
       Author : johngossman
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-12-22 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | mancerayder wrote:
       | Hm. I read this in college and found the English and spelling
       | very interesting, I would hope there is not too much lost in a
       | 'translation'. Sometimes I felt like I understood exactly the
       | point being made but I could never remember in those same terms.
       | It's satisfying, almost like listening to a cousin language and
       | understanding but not being able to repeat exactly.
        
       | ZeroGravitas wrote:
       | This book is on the wanted list for Standard Ebooks:
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       | https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks
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       | They do some modernisations of old timey phrases to make things
       | easier to read, and some are semi-automatic, but I'm not sure
       | exactly how far they go for this kind of thing.
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       | However, if you're handy with git then it would be fairly simple
       | to keep the changes in seperate commits, in the same way they
       | keep their editorial changes seperate from typos and other fixes
       | (because some people prefer the raw original text).
        
         | acabal wrote:
         | Correction: At SE we don't "modernize old timey phrases". We
         | perform sound-alike spelling updates only. For example clew ->
         | clue, chuse -> choose. Changes are mostly conservative and
         | obvious. People hear "modernize old timey phrases" and they go
         | nuts thinking we're turning _Macbeth_ into _Hunger Games_. That
         | 's just not accurate.
         | 
         | This linked version of _Leviathan_ is a fun project but it 's
         | emphatically _not_ the kind of thing we do at SE.
        
           | yamtaddle wrote:
           | As long as you're leaving the circumflex on role, I see
           | nothing wrong with this approach :-)
        
       | thenerdhead wrote:
       | I recently came across this book cover again and immediately
       | thought that's More Joel on Software. Which made me appreciate it
       | even more.
        
       | johngossman wrote:
       | I added a TOC and introduction to the project
       | https://whatisthequestion.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/hobbes-th...
        
         | jvandonsel wrote:
         | Typo in the second sentence of your intro.
        
         | _Algernon_ wrote:
         | Have had this book on my shelf for a while now, with a false
         | start due to the archaic language. Have subscribed to the blog,
         | and am exited to see where this goes!
        
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