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From: danny@joevax.UUCP (Dan Kahn)
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Esperanto
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Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 08:33:06 EDT
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>  Esperanto is a "universal" language that was invented by an international
> group of linguistics about 20 (I think) years ago.
> ...
> it never made it past the linguistics conventions. It is not really spoken
> by anyone...

I'm a lover of natural languages, not an Esperanto enthusiast,
so I'll leave it to others to set the record straight, but I have
a general comment.  When a friend asks you a question that you're
not sure of the answer to, it is natural to say, "Well, I THINK..."
even tho there's a good probability you'll be wrong.  The Net,
with potential world-wide distribution and enormous numbers of
readers, is no place for "well I think" answers to questions whose
correct answers can easily be determined with a little research.

					Dan Kahn
					Bell Communications Research
					Morristown, NJ