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   alexander koryagin to Anton Shepelev   
   Re: Dorothy Sayers on `shall' and `will'   
   30 Sep 22 09:51:45   
   
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   Hi Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message on 30-Sep-2022   
      
     AK>> Simplification of English is a long life tendency. The simpler you   
     AK>> speak the bigger auditory listens to you. ;)   
      
     AS> But gaining a big audience is an evil purpose fit for social-   
     AS> network parasites and like-collectors, software giants, general   
     AS> money suckers, and vain people. It breeds generation upon   
     AS> generation of lazy, clueless, benighted, tasteless, uncultured   
     AS> people unwilling to learn and nurtured upon surrogates of art and   
     AS> knowledge. A creator or artist that fawns upon his audience has   
     AS> betrayed himself. His work is always false.   
      
   Most ugly and violent ideas can be expressed in a perfect language. Yes,    
   the idea is the main thing. And if you want to teach somebody, IMHO it    
   will be good to do it with maximum clarity and as simpler as possible.    
   You can take any lesson on any subject -- if a teacher chooses a    
   complicated way of explanation instead of a simple one he will get his    
   aim unlikely. And, besides, the beauty of languages correlated little    
   with the number words you use in your story. Another main idea IMHO is    
   that you should use words in a proper time. As if they are musical cords.   
      
     AK>> In English a great lot of words sound similarly, but the context   
     AK>> of the phrase usually gets the clue. Probably, not only the   
     AK>> context, but even the "melody" of phrase.   
      
     AS> I believe context, intonation, rhythm, and melody crucial to all   
     AS> languages, yet it is a poor justifiction for vulgar simplification   
     AS> of language itself to the detriment of its beauty and   
     AS> expressiveness.   
      
   First, of it should be understood which is the target of your art. The    
   artists are divided in two groups -- first one knows their auditory,    
   fawns it, as you put it;  second one doesn't pay any attention on people    
   opinions and does art for the sake of process (art).   
      
   Bye Anton!   
   Alexander   
   english_tutor 2022   
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