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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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In article <elnaD3KB2I.6uv@netcom.com>,
Esperanto League N America <elna@netcom.com> wrote:

>Esperanto has the distinction of being the Romance language with the 
>largest proportion of Germanic elements. It is also politically neutral 
>and planned to be easy to learn. On these bases together it qualifies as
>the ideal international language for the EU and elsewhere.

Esperanto is not, by any stretch of the imagination or the science of
linguistics, a Romance language.  Certainly not any more than ASL is a 
Germanic language or Ladino a Semitic language.

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