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Re: Another attempt at plain language

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 03 September 2015 03:49 UTC

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Michael Everson scripsit:

> This “plain” thing is a style of discourse, not a genuine language variant. 

Not too different from Boontling, in my view, which is mostly a vocabulary.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
"The serene chaos that is Courage, and the phenomenon of Unopened
Consciousness have been known to the Great World eons longer than Extaboulism."
"Why is that?" the woman inquired.
"Because I just made that word up", the Master said wisely.
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