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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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In article <3h5dv3$8sv@solar.sky.net> novmondo@solar.sky.net "Mondisto" writes:
> Wow! That's easy to say from the perspective of an English-speaker. I 
> must admit that the more English is used anywhere in the world benefits 
> me, someone who was born into the language. But I shudder to think how I 
> would feel if I had to learn this clumsy, illogical, and cumbersome language.

In what way is English clumsy and cumbersome?

> Esperanto offers basic familiarity to anyone who speaks a European 
> language plus it has the added benefits of regularity, logic, and ease of 
> learning. And allow me to point out that it IS, in fact, neutral, for 
> although it is European-based, it belongs to no one nation or people.

English belongs to no one nation or people (certainly not the British), 
either.

-- 
Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
