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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 18:23:52 GMT
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In article <elnaD3s0FA.Ayq@netcom.com> elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America) writes:
>deb5@midway.uchicago.edu writes in a recent posting (reference <D3o19C.Hvr@midway.uchicago.edu>):
>>Esperanto is not, by any stretch of the imagination or the science of
>>linguistics, a Romance language.  [...]
>>
>Come now, Da! Surely your imagination can stretch *this* far:
>"A Romance language is any language which draws a majority of its 
>word stock from Latin." 

This is nonsense.

If I stretch my imagination enough, I'm sure I'll be able to come up
with several dozen other expressions that will do equally well.  The
word `nonsense' has a great many synonyms.

But I'd rather save my imagination for something useful.

-- 
`I'm sendin a flood tae pit an end tae it aw.  But dinny worry yersel, Noah.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
* Centre for Cognitive Science,  2 Buccleuch Place,   Edinburgh EH8 9LW,  UK
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