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   Message 3,918 of 4,347   
   Anton Shepelev to alexander koryagin   
   Dorothy Sayers on `shall' and `will'   
   29 Sep 22 15:32:22   
   
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   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.   
      
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