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- From: tylee@leety.austin.ibm.com (Ty Lee)
- Subject: Simplified English
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:08:31 GMT
- Organization: IBM, Austin
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- In the Chinese world, there has been a movement to promote the idea
- of simplifying the strokes in writing the Chinese characters. Some
- argues that this will save time in coding the language into computer.
-
- Is there any similar movement going that will simplify the English
- language?
-
- Do you think it is a worth try to simplify the English by removing
- the definite and/or indefinite articles from the written English?
- If we examine the text in this article, we will find as many as 13
- occurences of the definite articles, the, are used. If I removed them,
- the meaning of the text would not be distorted severly.
-
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