Denis Fesik wrote:
I found this girl on what I then first learned the name of: Breadtube. The main point of the first video I watched, however, was that all sorts of prescriptions like the ones you get from Grammarly were actually deleterious: writers should be free to choose ways to express themselves. I commented saying that, as a teacher, she was supposed to have an idea of what good writing is and how it's different from bad writing – otherwise, why even bother teaching anyone? She didn't reply (no surprise here). In her other videos, things started to get more puzzling for a person like me. According to her, we have no business judging about the quality of someone's writing, everything is supposed to be normalized and equalized, even complete illiteracy (of the kind caused by laziness rather than dyslexia). Compassion and inclusion are what really matters. I've been noticing a similar trend in the translation market. Who cares if someone's translation makes someone else cringe at how badly it's written? It's still understandable, isn't it? Well, even if it's not, who cares. Do you want to make less-than-perfect translators jobless? How about we stick a label on you, you elitist sonofab*** with your Darwinian ideas? Don't harbor no illusions, baby. MT will eat you for breakfast tomorrow
Breadtube is communist YouTube. The liberal arts have shifted to a post-modernist view of education, where everything is subjective and things like grammar are used by the elites as tools of oppression. I have noted this too in translation, if you push for quality, you are evil. All of arts/media is infested w/ this thinking.
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