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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: What is a native language? was Re: Rubbish Speak
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rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards) writes in a recent posting (reference <rte-2202961946390001@mac-118.lz.att.com>):
>
>It's certainly true that there is more of a culture among deaf people than
>among Esperantists.  But excluding the mainstream culture would be equally
>immoral in either case.
>
Oh, yeah? We have  more music than they do!!  :-)

I have met many children who are native speakers of Esperanto; they are 
almost all *tri-lingual* for their parents have no intention to isolate
them from other cultures, but rather to expose them to an international 
culture in addition to that (or those) of the parents.


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