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Subject: Re: Esperanto
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Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 23:02:14 EST
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This is just a short posting regarding the linguistic ability of Zamenhof,
the inventor of Esperanto.  It was said that he was an amateur linguist in
one posting, and a good one in another.  Actually, the former is more
correct.  Zamenhof *did* speak many different languages to some degree, but
this in no way alludes to his being a linguist.  A linguist is a sort of
language scientist--not a person who speaks many languages (although
linguists do often speak many languages also).  Being multilingual does
not a linguist make, Mercutio.

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