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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
In-Reply-To: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu's message of 8 Feb 1995 03:51:47 -0500
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In article <3ha0n3INNmq5@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:

   But no one has presented rational reasons for preferring Esperanto to
   other planned languages.  (I won't get into the question of Esperanto's
   supposed neutrality.)  

A good point. Personally, I don't care that much. Show me a planned
language that in at least one point is superior to Esperanto, without
having obvious disadvantages, and I am probably willing to learn and
use it. But currently, Esperanto is the only planned language that
has actually been used long enough to prove its usability.

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