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- From: greg.grainger@rose.com (greg grainger)
- Subject: Re: Simplified Englis
- Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:10:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.171022.16137@rose.com>
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- Date Entered: 01-01-93 12:05
- On Dec 31, tylee@leety.austin.ibm.com (Ty Lee) wrote:
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- TY>In the Chinese world, there has been a movement to promote the idea
- TY>of simplifying the strokes in writing the Chinese characters. Some
- TY>argues that this will save time in coding the language into computer.
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- TY>Is there any similar movement going that will simplify the English
- TY>language?
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- TY>Do you think it is a worth try to simplify the English by removing
- TY>the definite and/or indefinite articles from the written English?
- TY>If we examine the text in this article, we will find as many as 13
- TY>occurences of the definite articles, the, are used. If I removed them,
- TY>the meaning of the text would not be distorted severly.
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- Doubleplusungood.
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- Cheers,
- Greg.
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- Greg Grainger
- Toronto, Ontario.
- greg.grainger@rose.com
- 11:23:13 am, Fri 01-01-1993.
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