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rkn
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Submitted by rkn on 22 April, 2006 - 18:57.

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Abolishing Borders from Below wrote:
As you probably noticed the english which is used in this newspaper is very far from its gramatical and stylistic ideals. It is mostly because this is a level of english which most of our corespondents, big part of our readers and most of us (as editors) are using. So at first, we obviously prefare to communicate on this level of english which is understandable for ourslves (!) and secondly, we decided to be rather “bad english reputation” newspaper as to rise a level of language and this way eliminate probably 30-60% of our regular readers, especialy in south and eastern Europe (which could not understand the texts anymore).