Subj : Women don't like rain
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Anton Shepelev
Date : Mon Jun 24 2019 19:45:28

Alexander Koryagin:

AS>> whereas  your  use  of "wanna" and "inside of" can make
AS>> any literate person's nails turn blue :-)
AK> 90% of people use informal speech.  It  makes  them  not
AK> look too green and blue. ;-)

As  in  inexperienced  and  sad?   I  think  not so.  To me,
emphatically informal language written  by  educated  people
only  shows  their  carelessness and makes them seem lowbrow
teenagers.  It is quite appropriate and natural, however, in
the verbal speech of those who do not know better.

Futher  more,  informal  language  is  more  primitive  than
literate language, has lower  expressive  power  and  weaker
nuancing.   Its  slipshod  phraseology  shows  a disparaging
attitude towards every thing  mentioned  and  every  thought
uttered.   Consider,  for example, app vs. program or selfie
vs. autoportrait.

I believe one should learn from the best  rather  than  from
the  worst,  and therefore commend the best Russian writers:
Pushkin, Tolstoy (especially his later and  shorter  works),
Leskov,   Garshin  and  more  recent  Soviet  writers,  e.g.
Alexander Grin,  Boris  Pilnyak,  Andrey  Platonov,  Chingiz
Aitmatov,  Yuriy Kazakov.  I don't know any talented writers
in modern Russia, but am looking forward to  reading  Dmitry
Likhanov's  "The Life of a White Bitch" (about a dog).  Have
you read it already?

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