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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: internet languages (English rules?)
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Organization: That would be telling.
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: : rison@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk "M.G. Rison" writes:
: : > I have yet to be convinced that if Esperanto were adopted as a
: : > common world (or even European) language, it would necessarily
: : > degenerate back into lots of incompatible local dialects.

: Phil Hunt (philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: : There would be local dialects, but they would remain mutually
: : intelligible for as long as their is enough communication between
: : dialects. For the same reasons, the various dialects of English are
: : remaining mutually intelligible.

Wing Luk <wingluk@netaxs.com> says:
: Not for chinese dialects or italian dialects. Even for english dialects, 
: I have difficulties under people speaking english in wales and scotland.

All those dialects diverged in times before there were telephones,
movies, airplanes and the Net.  Now, I would expect dialects to tend 
to converge, though there will be internal resistance to the process.
-- 
    KrazyKev is now putting my address on his magazine spams.
    I guess I annoyed him by responding to each one I received.
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I wasn't always anarcho-capitalist, you know.	--   Ubi scriptum?
