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Continue to ChatIt is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, english has reached the alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. - https://www.relicsworld.com/raymond-chandler/it-is-a-mass-language-only-in-the-same-sense-that-its-author