B/A Awarded
An abridged version of a book is a shortened version of the original book and usually cuts out some of the (arguably) non-essential text while keeping the main parts of the story intact.
An unabridged version gives you the complete version.
Hope that helps!
August 9th, 2010 at 2:58 am
UNabridged = you get 100%
abridged = you get 69-80% – the necessary stuff to make it work
all the best
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e.g. (for example) Charles Dickens was paid by the word
so David Copperfield is 387 pages
probably get the whole story in 20 – hehehehehehehehe
August 9th, 2010 at 3:39 am
An abridged version of a book is a shortened version of the original book and usually cuts out some of the (arguably) non-essential text while keeping the main parts of the story intact.
An unabridged version gives you the complete version.
Hope that helps!
References :
August 9th, 2010 at 4:02 am
Whatever happened to looking up words in the dictionary?
See my sources
References :
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
August 9th, 2010 at 4:50 am
up to 50 CD?
Abridged audio-books have cut a lot of the text, it’s supposed to be text you won’t miss but it tends to be everything that gives a book "atmosphere".
And why do Americans think Dickens was paid by the word – he was not! Some of us wish he had been, so there would have been more to read.
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