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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Single European language: *NOT* European english
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jgrantha@hildesheim.sgh-net.de writes in a recent posting (reference <3281DA65.30C6@hildesheim.sgh-net.de>):
>
>                      I "like" English in the same way that I
>like breathing. It's just necessary. Artificial languages, at least for
>now, are not.
>
Yes, I understand this well! I too feel quite at home in English, and often
notice the strain of an interlocutor who is struggling in ESL. This seems
rather unfair, but is certainly better than having no common language!
However, for me Esperanto has become quite as natural as breathing; and I
profoundly enjoy conversations with Russians, Japanese, Brazilians, et al.
in this neutral language in which nobody needs to struggle with verb tables
or lists of irregular formations.
Obviously artificial languages are not "necessary" for you because you have
not learned one!

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