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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Single European language: *NOT* European english
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jgrantha@hildesheim.sgh-net.de writes in a recent posting (reference <327A5EA4.697B@hildesheim.sgh-net.de>):
>
>The greatest danger of having a synthespeak as you describe it--i.e.,
>deliberately having little or no shades of meaning--is that, in the end,
>it becomes like Newspeak in "1984". No creative thought in the language
>would be possible, which immediately dooms it, and as I have argued, a
>language must _by definition_ be a "living" language in order to survive
>long term. That means native speakers--people using the language on a
>daily basis, perhaps even as a mother tongue.
>
At the end of the paragraph, you provide a definition of "native
speaker" which Esperanto *easily* matches, so you apparently agree
that it is a living language.  In the beginning of the paragraph, you
show too much will to be seduced by fiction!

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