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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.
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.