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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: anti-Esperanto
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:27:11 GMT
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gusty@clark.net (Harlan Messinger) writes in a recent posting (reference <466398$2ri@clarknet.clark.net>):
>Esperanto League N America (elna@netcom.com) wrote:
>: >
>: You will perhaps notice the cause of these offensive flamefests is in
>: the anti-Esperanto camp. Obviously unscientific assertions based on
>: a priori judgements of realworld phenomena *ought* to be challenged and
>: corrected.
>
>Aren't you the same person I just scolded for ordering everybody else not 
>to give _you_ real-life facts and counterexamples because they were 
>"obvious and irrelevant"?
>
Yes. I accept the scolding, but stick to the statement that improved
communication *can* improve human interrelations. A list of 
counter-examples might work well in hard science, but not in sociology.
I stand by my assertion that they are (all-too) obvious and irrelevent.
If I assert that "man is a rational being which can learn from its mistakes"
and then ask for counterexamples, what will be the result?

>Sorry, I just couldn't help noticing the irony.
>
I appreciate the irony. It is a result of consciousness, nicht wahr?

>The 1990s: the Duh Decade.   
>
I agree. We're all bozos on this bus!

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