ĵaŭ, 28 Jan 2010, Skip Cave skribis: > There is another, more important reason why this newbie bias is the > right thing to do. It is much easier to skip over a concept that you > already understand in a text, than try to discover the explanation for a > concept presented in the text that you don't understand. If a > moderately-experienced reader reads a TW vocabulary entry and encounters > a passage that they already understand, they can simply skip over it. If > the novice reader encounters a passage they don't understand, how do > they find where that concept is explained in newbie-language? They > probably won't even know what keywords they should search for, in the > overall document.
IMO the current DOJ is like a unilingual dictionary in human language, it gives the more exact and correct definition for native speakers or advanced learners, but a newbie is often not yet capable of comprehension. A bilingual J dictionary that translate J words or concept to their more familiar languages or concepts is easier to understand albeit not an exact definition. -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
