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From: breen@SILVER.BACS.INDIANA.EDU (elise breen)
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Subject: Re: Global Cultural Prototype
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Date: 12 Oct 89 01:24:36 GMT
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ESPERANTO ???

You have to be kidding when you say that this would be equally difficult for everyon
everyone.  Anyone who is fairly fluent in a Romance language plus has
had some Latin (though the Latin isn't necessary) can get along in Esperanto
with a weekend course in the basics of its morphology and syntax!

You'd be cutting out the majority of the rest of the world's population,
however.  This would be like saying "why not make the Chinese character
system the universal writing system (not a bad idea, actually, since
you could express any language with it)", though of course this would be
giving a huge advantage to China, Japan, Korea and a number of other
Asian countries...

It'd be rough on our word-processing software, though :-)

Elise