Re: McGuffey Project Update: 172 Sentences

--- Mark Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

> Gary:  I'm confused.  The first sentence - actually
> a fragment - in
> the text of the first reader (on your McGuffey
> download page) is "the
> dog", then "the dog ran", etc.  But the first
> sentence in your Tazh
> corpus is "I see a boy."  Whence the difference?
>
My translation was the text from Project Guttenberg
which is the 1836 edition of McGuffey's.  The whole
set of readers was extensively revised and rewritten
in 1879, and the copy I entered that text from is that
later, revised edition. At the time I began the
project I was not aware that there were two editions
that differed so radically.

The new one seems the better choice because it
advances at a quicker pace to more complex sentences
and doesn't have as much pointless repetition as the
1836 edition.

--gary

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