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From: gilbert@hwcs.UUCP (Gilbert Cockton)
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Subject: Re: Welcome Europe to net.nlang; Esperanto vs English
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 01:32:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 01:32:44 1985
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Organization: Computer Sci., Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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Keywords: Funi soit qui mal y prop

>Latin would also be a useful interlingua: the Romans spread widely enough
>to DISTRIBUTE considerable quantities of their language 

 LAUDATE CAESAR IMPERATOR DEUSQUE

 Lingusitic exports to kalends of March in the Consulship of Fordus

		VERBS  	NOUNS	ADJECTIVES	PARTICLES
	
  Gall		CCXLII	MCCDL	CMCDXLIX	IDMCIX

  Briton	DCCCIV	MMMMI	IC		LXXXVIII

  Iberia	III	CCCDII	MMMMMMI		DCCCLXXIII

  Egypt		CCCLXI	MCMXXI	MMDCCXXXI	I


  NOTA NON BENE

  The having being offered the subjunctive Iberians have fled by,
  with or from the verbs.

  Hearing the adjectives, the fit to be elocuted Britons refused to
  buy.

  "On the one hand the particles are small, on the other they have
  no obvious translation" reported the pharoah's scribe.
		
  Would that the Galls demanded a lesser part of our nouns.