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Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> Sun, 13 September 2015 17:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: Another attempt at plain language
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On 13 Sep 2015, at 17:19, David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Every language in ISO 639-1 I could produce a sample of text that every one would agree was that language. It's hard to imagine a chunk of text that most we agree is en-plain. Is this en-plain? I did not intend it to be so.

Exactly. 

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

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