They don’t have to. In fact, it makes more sense for them to be out the quote, unless they’re part of the quote. Many writers use commas outside of the enclosement of the quotation marks. I do

The character is Miyako Hoshino, the protagonist of Wataten! An Angel Flew Down to Me (Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!), a yuri romcom about a college student falling in love with an elementary schooler, written by a guy

Yes, lesbian pedophile is a subgenre now, and it’s mediocre as fuck at best

Based and customizationpilled

is this what terry davis used

I agree but it could be worse (Pop!_OS)

Considering China’s literacy rate grew from 20 percent in 1956 to 65 percent in 1982 (and now 97% in 2020 which is insane for such a highly rural country – 43% of the population, to give an idea) due to them focusing on Simplified Chinese, you’re just wrong in stating it “didn’t do anything”. In fact, Mao got the idea from seeing Japan’s success in improving literacy by simplifying Kanji into Shinjitai, so you’re wrong twice…

Of course, it went hand-and-hand with the government’s education reforms, it doesn’t deserve all the credit. But it helped a LOT. It can be argued that it’s no longer a factor because of the access to education Chinese have now, and I’d agree, but it helped when literacy was in need of improvement.

Obviously though, different characters is a small change compared to completely rewriting the sentences to simplify it, like this does here.

People have been complaining about laziness in language and “dumbing down” language since language has existed. It’s nothing new and it’s not happening at a different rate than before. The perceived degredation of language is not, and has never been, a real thing. It’s natural and unstoppable language change. It’s the reason you can’t understand Old English, and why Hindi, German, Spanish, and Russian are different languages from English now.

That being said, things like this theoretically could help to increase literacy rates significantly in populations with low literacy (in a similar way Simplified Chinese script along with Chinese education reforms drastically improved China’s literacy rates) – and most of the US has surprisingly low literacy (about 54% of adults have low English literacy and 21% are illiterate) – or for people who aren’t proficient enough readers to gain anything from reading something of such a high level. Reading should be accessible to as many people as possible, not gatekeeped. It would be far better as some sort of “annotation creator” though probably, if your goal is more literacy.

Of course, you shouldn’t rely on something like this by any means. But it’s not bad for a lot of purposes, we shouldn’t beat uneducated people while they’re down. And either way your literacy really doesn’t affect your “stupidity”, although a lot of resources with knowledge you might want will require a certain level of literacy.

Having on-hand knowledge of a lot of dated, obscure, or specialized language does not, in fact, make you smarter

Sincerily, someone who knows a lot of obscure, dated, and specialized language ((i am a linguist))

““Occasionally she’d cook meals(?) of fish for him and place on his heartsfoot [hearth’s foot? heart’s foot, figurative language for joy?] her meddery [???] eggs, sausages, and stainish [burnt/crispy] bacon on toast, and a wishy-washy cup of Greenland tea or soup-can(?) of coffee, milk and sugar, or Si-Kiang sugary [some sort of sweet tea?], or ale of ferns [herbal ale?] in trueart [skillfully crafted] pewter, and a bit of bread “??? ???” to please him and keep his stomach porky, until her (???)knees shrunk to nutmeg graters while her joints shucked [peeled] with gout; and as rash as she’d rush with her peak-load of provisions up on her sieve [???] “(???) rage, it swells and rises”, my hardy Hek [Hector?], he’d cast them from him, with a stour [force] of scorn, as much as to say you sow and you sorrow, and if he didn’t peg it flat on her (tail/head/heel?), believe you me, she was safe enough.””

I don’t know what kind of rural Irish hell this comes out of, but some of the words don’t even look English. I hated trying to decipher that and I’m sure I wasn’t accurate for half of it.

i use gnu/windows btw

on y office maybe? that could be interpreted as “we work there” with very poor grammar

“left propaganda” BAHAHAHA that’s like complaining about seeing people using science in their daily lives or talking about science and calling it science propoganda

being right-wing is inherently irrational and anti-science, there is no room to complain about “left propoganda” especially when UBI isn’t even inherently leftist, UBI still exists solely to prop up a broken capitalist system making it live on the right of the political spectrum. left propaganda would be advocating for socialism or something, this is just advocating for welfare capitalism (which has been proven to be far better for the populace than other forms of capitalism in use).

this post doesn’t even state an opinion on UBI though, so it’s weird that you took it as “propoganda”, or even “political”. it’s literally just proportions. it’s really hard to take someone who’s saying “the objective truth is just political propaganda” seriously.