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|    Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin    |
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|    24 Jun 19 19:45:28    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 5d10fe20       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5d10d27e       PID: JamNNTPd/Cygwin32 1.3 20190208       CHRS: IBMPC 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/w32-mvc 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08       Alexander Koryagin:              AS>> whereas your use of "wanna" and "inside of" can make       AS>> any literate person's nails turn blue :-)       AK> 90% of people use informal speech. It makes them not       AK> look too green and blue. ;-)              As in inexperienced and sad? I think not so. To me,       emphatically informal language written by educated people       only shows their carelessness and makes them seem lowbrow       teenagers. It is quite appropriate and natural, however, in       the verbal speech of those who do not know better.              Futher more, informal language is more primitive than       literate language, has lower expressive power and weaker       nuancing. Its slipshod phraseology shows a disparaging       attitude towards every thing mentioned and every thought       uttered. Consider, for example, app vs. program or selfie       vs. autoportrait.              I believe one should learn from the best rather than from       the worst, and therefore commend the best Russian writers:       Pushkin, Tolstoy (especially his later and shorter works),       Leskov, Garshin and more recent Soviet writers, e.g.       Alexander Grin, Boris Pilnyak, Andrey Platonov, Chingiz       Aitmatov, Yuriy Kazakov. I don't know any talented writers       in modern Russia, but am looking forward to reading Dmitry       Likhanov's "The Life of a White Bitch" (about a dog). Have       you read it already?              ---        * Origin: nntps://fidonews.mine.nu - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/17 227/114 229/354 426 1014       SEEN-BY: 240/1120 1634 2100 5138 5832 5853 8001 8002 249/206 317 261/38       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5006 5268 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757 335/364 342/200       SEEN-BY: 393/68 2454/119       PATH: 221/6 1 280/5003 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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