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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: One point against Esperanto
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djohnson@arnold.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <DJOHNSON.95Mar17192800@arnold.ucsd.edu>:

>>  to call ido a bug fixed esperanto is ridiculous.
>
>My apologies, I've never seen it, but I've always heard it described
>as an attempted improvement over Esperanto.  (but then as any
>programmer knows, a bug-fixed program can be worse than the original)
>
Ido was an attempt to make Esperanto look more like French (and English). 
It succeeded. Whether this was an improvement or not is a matter of opinion.

>Darin Johnson
>djohnson@ucsd.edu
>    Gravity is a harsh mistress - The Tick

Diable! La iksodistoj c^ieas!


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