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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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Organization: Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 08:47:34 GMT
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deb5@midway.uchicago.edu writes in a recent posting (reference <D3o19C.Hvr@midway.uchicago.edu>):
>In article <elnaD3KB2I.6uv@netcom.com>,
>Esperanto League N America <elna@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>Esperanto has the distinction of being the Romance language with the 
>>largest proportion of Germanic elements. It is also politically neutral 
>>and planned to be easy to learn. On these bases together it qualifies as
>>the ideal international language for the EU and elsewhere.
>
>Esperanto is not, by any stretch of the imagination or the science of
>linguistics, a Romance language.  Certainly not any more than ASL is a 
>Germanic language or Ladino a Semitic language.
>
Come now, Da! Surely your imagination can stretch *this* far:
"A Romance language is any language which draws a majority of its 
word stock from Latin." 

Miko.

