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- From: jww@evolving.com (John W. Woolley)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Simplified English
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.214301.80527@evolving.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:43:01 GMT
- References: <C03yA7.2oIx@austin.ibm.com>
- Organization: Evolving Systems, Inc.
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- Read it again. Savour it.
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- tylee@leety.austin.ibm.com (Ty Lee) writes:
- : 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.
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- : 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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