Re: Another attempt at plain language

Mark Davis ☕️ <mark@macchiato.com> Wed, 02 September 2015 17:14 UTC

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> 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
tags that are intended to have basically the same semantics is not a
productive policy.​



Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

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