Alexander Koryagin:

Can we put "I will" instead of "I shall" -- all people
do it by putting the shortening "'ll" after "I".

No, many careful writes abstain from this practice, and so
do I.

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.

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I wrote:

expression faculties

expressive faculties, rather.

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Hi Anton Shepelev!
I read your message on 29-Sep-2022

AK>> Can we put "I will" instead of "I shall" -- all people do it by
AK>> putting the shortening "'ll" after "I".
AS> No, many careful writes abstain from this practice, and so do I.

Simplification of English is a long life tendency. The simpler you speak
the bigger auditory listens to you. ;)

AK>> Everybody understand. So we can. ;)

AS> This utilitarian approach encourages negligient, slipshod language,
AS> furthering its degeneration, which in turn degrades our thinking
AS> and expression faculties by way of a vicious loop of positive
AS> feedback. No, thanks.

In English a great lot of words sound similarly, but the context of the
phrase usually gets the clue. Probably, not only the context, but even
the "melody" of phrase.

Bye Anton!
Alexander
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Alexander Koryagin:

Simplification of English is a long life tendency.The
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.

In English a great lot of words sound similarly, but the
context of the phrase usually gets the clue. Probably,
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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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
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