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John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Sun, 13 September 2015 16:59 UTC

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From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
To: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
Subject: Re: Another attempt at plain language
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Michael Everson scripsit:

> There are books for early readers and young adults
> and college students but the difference of language use in those
> books is not precisely defined. 

Scouse as a variety of English is not precisely defined either: it is
at most described, and the books referred to are not scholarly by
intention.  Yet it is a legitimate variant tag.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
When I wrote it I was more than a little febrile with foodpoisoning
from an antique carrot that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith
in the benignancy of vegetables.  --And Rosta

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