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From: neal@druxv.UUCP (Neal D. McBurnett)
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Subject: Re: Eperanto, the aggressor language.
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Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 23:01:57 EST
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> 			 	Esperanto
> appears to have incorporated the worst and most 
> aggrevating problems from all languages (actually
> European).

Could you please be a little more specific about your objections
to Esperanto?  Despite some of my initial misgivings about some
of the points of grammar, I've come to the conclusion that there
are only a few worth calling "defects", and that most of the
aspects that seem aggravating at first turn out to be advantages
when you get used to them.
Even more important, if we decide to start fooling around with
the language, we will loose the progress it has made so far:
30,000 books, maybe a million speakers, a diversity of styles of
poetry, etc.  No system as complicated as a language can please
everyone.  Obviously Esperanto has pleased more people than any
other similar undertaking, so it makes sense to support it.

-Neal McBurnett, ihnp4!druny!neal