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22 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 July 2015 09:40PM

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Comment author: eternal_neophyte 08 July 2015 09:29:55PM 2 points [-]

As long as this international english is restricted to diplomacy, commerce and science. I retch at the thought of literature written in a dry, unidiosyncratic, flavourless language with the charmless consistency of an office clerk.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 09 July 2015 05:46:23PM 4 points [-]

Even if you design a perfectly dry and insipid language, you can always count on poets to make it more complicated than it needs to be.