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|    Anton Shepelev to alexander koryagin    |
|    Dorothy Sayers on `shall' and `will'    |
|    29 Sep 22 13:10:48    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 63356f20       REPLY: 2:5075/128.130 0828d9ef       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> Can we put "I will" instead of "I shall" -- all people       AK> do it by putting the shortening "'ll" after "I".              No, many careful writes abstain from this practice, and so       do I.              AK> Everybody understand. So we can. ;)              This utilitarian approach encourages negligient, slipshod       language, furthering its degeneration, which in turn       degrades our thinking and expression faculties by way of a       vicious loop of positive feedback. No, thanks.              ---         * 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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