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|  Anton Shepelev to alexander koryagin  |
|  Dorothy Sayers on `shall' and `will'  |
|  29 Sep 22 15:32:22  |
 MSGID: 2:221/6.0 63359054 REPLY: 2:5075/128.130 7118e5ef PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20220912 EID: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.23; i686-pc-mingw32). CHRS: CP437 2 TZUTC: 0300 TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-07-03 Alexander Koryagin: AK> Simplification of English is a long life tendency.The AK> simpler you speak the bigger auditory listens to you. ;) But gaining a big audience is an evil purpose fit for social-network parasites and like-collectors, software giants, general money suckers, and vain people. It breeds generation upon generation of lazy, clueless, benighted, tasteless, uncultured people unwilling to learn and nurtured upon surrogates of art and knowledge. A creator or artist that fawns upon his audience has betrayed himself. His work is always false. AK> In English a great lot of words sound similarly, but the AK> context of the phrase usually gets the clue. Probably, AK> not only the context, but even the "melody" of phrase. I believe context, intonation, rhythm, and melody crucial to all languages, yet it is a poor justifiction for vulgar simplification of language itself to the detriment of its beauty and expressiveness. --- * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 15/0 16/0 19/10 37 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/130 SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 153/7715 203/0 218/700 221/1 6 360 227/114 SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 112 113 206 317 424 426 428 470 664 700 240/5832 SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/5003 282/1038 301/1 317/3 320/119 219 319 322/0 SEEN-BY: 322/757 335/364 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 712/848 SEEN-BY: 4500/1 5020/1042 PATH: 221/6 1 320/219 229/426 |
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