Thank you for your comments, it's been a pleasure to read all of them. For the record, the quoted parts were taken from the post I was originally responding to

Thank you for your comments, it's been a pleasure to read all of them. For the record, the quoted parts were taken from the post I was originally responding to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023467 Also, I definitely agree (quoting from your other post) that: > The line between spoken and written language isn't really a question of writing. Transcribed speech is still an oral language. This is a very good point. Perhaps I shouldn't have written so categorically about this in my original comment. I only had in mind that due to the way some of the examples in the PDF are constructed, the focus seems to be more on the writing conventions than on the languages itself.