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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Viable IAL(s)   
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 23:54:44 GMT
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ds26@bunny.gte.com (Dorai Sitaram) writes in a recent posting (reference <59f0o9$hh9@news.gte.com>):
>
>All this is a roundabout and hopefully constructively
>persuasive way of saying that if proponents of Interlingua
>or some other conlang had a newsgroup presence, some of us
>would have had a choice and used it.
>
While I do not doubt that this is true, I suspect that this would
cause mostly a siphoning off of some more "tinkerers" who enjoying
playing with embryonic language projects in order to "perfect"
them. These folks might have been more taken by the configuration
of warts peculiar to Interlingua, Eurolang, Glossa, etc. but anyone
who wants to actually *use* an International Auxiliary Language in the
"Real World" today must recognise that Esperanto is the only choice.
No other IAL has hundreds of thousands of speakers spread worldwide,
thousands of books of original & translated literature, hundreds of
periodicals, and (as you point out) a number of Usenet newsgroups.
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