Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!NOTE.NSF.GOV!fbaube
From: fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Esperanto (was: UUCP-USSR)
Message-ID: <8710220944.aa16353@note.nsf.gov>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 10:17:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: note.8710220944.aa16353
Posted: Thu Oct 22 10:17:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 01:42:06 EDT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 22


> I thought I would mention that if any of you read Esperanto, a good source of
> information on computers in the Warsaw Pact might be the magazine "Internacia
> Komputado", published in Hungary.  The only issue I have seen is several
> years old, but I suspect that Neal Mcburnett (neal@druny.UUCP) could provide
> you with recent subscription info -- he attended an Esperanto computer
> conference somewhere in Eastern Europe a couple of years ago. 

Someone explained to me that the Soviets are pushing Esperanto as
a lingua franca for the East European scientific community, on the
basis that Esperanto is easy to learn, extensible, not associated
with any particular nationality, etc. etc., and with the added
"virtue" that it is NOT ENGLISH !

> [For more information on the international language Esperanto, send an SASE
> to ELNA, PO Box 1129, El Cerrito, CA 94530; ask for the first lesson in
> their free correspondence course.

This course is deed free, and quite easy and straightforward, although
no-one's stopping you from including a buck or two :-).

> --- riddle@woton.UUCP  {ihnp4,harvard}!ut-sally!im4u!woton!riddle