Subj : Re: Dorothy Sayers on `shall' and `will'
To   : Anton Shepelev
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Fri Sep 30 2022 09:51:45

Hi Anton Shepelev!
I read your message on 30-Sep-2022

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

  AS> But gaining a big audience is an evil purpose fit for social-
  AS> network parasites and like-collectors, software giants, general
  AS> money suckers, and vain people. It breeds generation upon
  AS> generation of lazy, clueless, benighted, tasteless, uncultured
  AS> people unwilling to learn and nurtured upon surrogates of art and
  AS> knowledge. A creator or artist that fawns upon his audience has
  AS> betrayed himself. His work is always false.

Most ugly and violent ideas can be expressed in a perfect language. Yes, 
the idea is the main thing. And if you want to teach somebody, IMHO it 
will be good to do it with maximum clarity and as simpler as possible. 
You can take any lesson on any subject -- if a teacher chooses a 
complicated way of explanation instead of a simple one he will get his 
aim unlikely. And, besides, the beauty of languages correlated little 
with the number words you use in your story. Another main idea IMHO is 
that you should use words in a proper time. As if they are musical cords.

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

  AS> I believe context, intonation, rhythm, and melody crucial to all
  AS> languages, yet it is a poor justifiction for vulgar simplification
  AS> of language itself to the detriment of its beauty and
  AS> expressiveness.

First, of it should be understood which is the target of your art. The 
artists are divided in two groups -- first one knows their auditory, 
fawns it, as you put it;  second one doesn't pay any attention on people 
opinions and does art for the sake of process (art).

Bye Anton!
Alexander
english_tutor 2022
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