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|    Anton Shepelev to alexander koryagin    |
|    Dorothy Sayers on `shall' and `will'    |
|    29 Sep 22 15:32:22    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 63359054       REPLY: 2:5075/128.130 7118e5ef       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> 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.              ---         * 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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