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It's amazing to me how nobody seems to know about the short story "The great automatic grammatizator" by Roald Dahl. Nobody got closer than him. I feel like I s
by windowshopping 5mo ago
It's amazing to me how nobody seems to know about the short story "The great automatic grammatizator" by Roald Dahl. Nobody got closer than him. I feel like I should be reading about it all the time and no one seems to have ever heard of it.
- darkerside 5mo agoRoald
- windowshopping 5mo agoAutocorrect error
- dlcarrier 5mo agoGrammatizator error
- gensym 5mo ago[flagged]
- senectus1 5mo agowhat was this called?
- gensym 5mo agoThe Great Switcheroo
- kwanbix 5mo agoWhy would you out of nowhere spoil a book like that?
- sethjgore 5mo agoBecause the horror of dahl’s adult stories are as pervasive even if knowing the ending. I reread many times and still get the same sense of impending doom barbarically twisting fates in the mind - what if it was true?
- dbalatero 5mo agoYeah sounds like a real winner of a short story at the top of the priority list.
- protocolture 5mo agoBecause its ancient and theres no social contract preventing spoilers after 8 weeks.
- Noumenon72 5mo ago“There are many other little refinements too, Mr Bohlen. You’ll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there’s a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There’ll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose.” “Where?” “In the ‘word-memory’ section,” he said, epexegetically. https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-thegreatautomaticgrammatizator.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-theg...
- chistev 5mo agoI just read this. Thanks for bringing it up.