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RE: Another attempt at plain language

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Wed, 02 September 2015 18:06 UTC

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From: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
To: Mark Davis ☕️ <mark@macchiato.com>
Subject: RE: Another attempt at plain language
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Mark Davis 🍺🏼 <mark at macchiato dot com> wrote:

>> 2. "plain" English and "plain" German and "plain" Lavatbura-Lamusong
>> are fundamentally different languages, and variants that work across
>> languages usually require better commonality than this.
>
> ​I disagree with this part of what you say; having gratuitously
> different [sub]tags that are intended to have basically the same
> semantics is not a productive policy.​

I said it was one of the two major objections, i.e. that have been
raised on this list. I didn't say it was necessarily my personal
objection, or that I necessarily agreed with it.

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