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by csours
3618 days ago
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1. Not everyone is a fluent English reader. If you are providing government services, you have to provide them to "dumb" people as well. "Dumb" in this case includes a lot of smart people who were not raised with English as their first language. 2. There is no official version of the English language. Pronunciations, spellings and style guides change over time. Disclaimer: This post is subject to Muphry's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law |
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I.e. & e.g. aren't English, but rather Latin. Any educated person in the Western world should understand them, no?