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From: jim@duntone.demon.co.uk (Jim Moody)
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Subject: Re: Esperanto-English
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In article <3k9d80$1t0@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
           s_salomo@iraul1.ira.uka.de "Thierry Salomon" writes:

> [...]
> 75 % of the roots of Esperanto come from Latin languages,
> 20 % from Germanic, but as there are also a lot of roots in the Germanic
> language that come from Latin, a Germanic person will recognize
> more than 20% of Esperanto roots without having learnt the language.

If this is so, it is outrageously Eurocentric.  I hardly think that
ignoring those speaking many more of the world's languages than the
European ones will embrace such a development.  And why should they?
-- 
Jim Moody
