From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   J.Pascal  wrote:   
      
   > > But in my head, the language still works that way.  What you see in the   
   > > book is a simplification created during the translation process. :)   
   > >   
   >   
   > I was reading a book from the library.  I don't remember who the author   
   > was - it could have been Eric Flint - could have been someone else.  For   
   > the first 20 or so pages, every other sentence had a word underlined and   
   > the marginalia ended was the point where the reader gave up.   
   ...   
   > Which is fine.  But a large portion of potential readers are going to just   
   > bounce off.   
      
   This seemed a little out of the blue, since we were talking about   
   invented vocabulary.   
      
   But yes, the non-invented vocabulary used in Cantata is also quite   
   challenging.  One of several things that are going to make a large   
   portion of potential readers bounce.  (Assuming they ever pick the book   
   up in the first place, which seems unlikely.)   
      
   But I honestly believe that to "dumb down" the Coral Palace novels would   
   be to destroy them, and that instead of a lot more people enjoying them,   
   nobody would.   
      
      
      
      
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