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Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Thu, 26 November 2015 19:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: Pending requests
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
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On 26 Nov 2015, at 17:22, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@telia.com> wrote:
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> Hmm, not sure I (as a non-native user of English) would regard the (supposedly) "Basic" version to be simpler in any way than the “ordinary" version. I would regard the "Basic" version as strange, and in several places *harder* to understand than the "ordinary" version.

Sure. That might be a drawback to Basic English. Different types of texts would require different kinds of substitutions and circumlocutions. But we aren’t judging Basic English. We’re identifying it with a subtag. 

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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