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From: I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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In article <DUNCAN.95Jun14131847@lightning.eee.strath.ac.uk>,
Duncan THOMSON <duncan@lightning.eee.strath.ac.uk> wrote:
> Is this flame-bait, or genuine ignorance?  

Does Esperanto contain a translation for ``False Dichotomy?''  I hope
so, because it's a concept you'll be needing later.

> all in Esperanto, I'm afraid, but a glance at the top pages mights at
> least give you an idea of what's going on...

Which is all interesting stuff, but no more proof to me of a living
culture than the fact that someone translated the bible into Klingon.
Is anyone transacting business in Esperanto?  Writing Novels?  Making
films?  I see from soc.culture.esperanto that they're flaming about
vegetarianism and spam, mind you, so it's not all lost.

I'd not noticed that this was cross-posting out of uk.politics, but as
we now have a wider audience, perhaps someone will shoot down this
proposition:

	To be as expressive as a language spoken by a community
	as its first language, a language must be spoken by some
	comparable community as its first language.

ian

