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Re: Another attempt at plain language

David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com> Fri, 11 September 2015 21:44 UTC

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From: David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:43:26 +0000
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Subject: Re: Another attempt at plain language
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My issue with a tag like this is that for pretty much any other tag, given
a decent-sized chunk of text prototypical for that tag, it could be so
tagged. It seems fairly easy to disagree about whether even the most
prototypical -plain text is actually -plain or if it's just normal.

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