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   Anton Shepelev to Alexander Koryagin   
   Women don't like rain   
   24 Jun 19 19:45:28   
   
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   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?   
      
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