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[alexseanchai]

Okay, how come FB and DW posts and whatnot are comprehensible words but book pages aren't?

Like. "A number of communities of woodcarvers, metalworkers, and cloth weavers sprang up around the Asante capital, Kumasi, and became the basis for a distinctive culture harnessed to the Asante state through deliberate means of co-optation and royal patronage." What does that even MEAN. What are these words. They look like English. Except for "Asante" and "Kumasi", which are clear from context, I know what they all individually mean. It should not take me TEN bloody minutes to parse FIVE bloody pages EVEN in academese.

I need another vacation.

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[niqaeli]

By and large, FB and DW posts are not introducing new concepts and information to you. I mean, yes, they communicate updates and sometimes do introduce new concepts and information, but by density there is just far less. So there's much less mental work to be done in parsing DW/FB as opposed to textbooks or what have you, and therefore it's easier.

This is actually part of why I could stay on social media (DW and Twitter) even when my cognitive function had been eaten so thoroughly couldn't even watch narrative fiction much less read it. It isn't nearly as mentally taxing.

I mean, YMMV, obviously, but. *hands* It's a thought.

[alexseanchai]

Huh. That makes much sense.