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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Esperanto? The EU? (Very, very long)
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In article <795682779snz@duntone.demon.co.uk>
           jim@duntone.demon.co.uk "Jim Moody" writes:
> Aren't we all being a little Eurocentric here?  Many of the ideas
> behind Esperanto are admirable, but how come it is mostly derived
> from European languages 

I imagine, because Zamenhof was European.

> and mostly learnt by European language
> speakers?  

That I don't know.

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Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
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