Subj : Re: Dorothy Sayers on `shall' and `will'
To   : Anton Shepelev
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Thu Sep 29 2022 14:32:58

Hi Anton Shepelev!
I read your message on 29-Sep-2022

  AK>> Can we put "I will" instead of "I shall" -- all people do it by
  AK>> putting the shortening "'ll" after "I".
  AS> No, many careful writes abstain from this practice, and so do I.

Simplification of English is a long life tendency. The simpler you speak 
the bigger auditory listens to you. ;)

  AK>> Everybody understand. So we can. ;)

  AS> This utilitarian approach encourages negligient, slipshod language,
  AS> furthering its degeneration, which in turn degrades our thinking
  AS> and expression faculties by way of a vicious loop of positive
  AS> feedback. No, thanks.

In English a great lot of words sound similarly, but the context of the 
phrase usually gets the clue. Probably, not only the context, but even 
the "melody" of phrase.

Bye Anton!
Alexander
fidonews 2022
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