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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: All numeric representation of dates
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Date: 16 Sep 88 10:42:05 GMT
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In article <645@wsccs.UUCP> dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
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>I just had to throw my two bits into the discussion of languages.
>I don't really know enough about Esperanto to judge its relative merits,
>but it seems that people who favor it have forgot an essential element.
>All people seem to favor their own ethnic culture which also has an
>associated language.

So what?  To quote "Teach Yourself Esperanto":
	Esperanto is the _auxiliary_ language invented by ... Zamenhof.  ...
	It is in no way opposed to the national languages; on the contrary,
	it creates in those who learn it an interest in the whole matter,
	and this very often leads to their learning one or more of the
	national languages.

It is precisely because there are such strong feelings attached to existing
national languages that Zamenhof proposed an invented one: there would be
no strong feelings against it.

>Enough said.  Nes't Pas? (sp?)

That's "N'est-ce pas?"  "Esperanto ... often leads to .. learning ...".