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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: European language (was: European Governments Agree to Ban Strong Crypto)
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 00:20:10 GMT
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gusty@clark.net (Harlan Messinger) writes in a recent posting (reference <4662qo$2ri@clarknet.clark.net>):
>Esperanto League N America (elna@netcom.com) wrote:
>
>: I submit that linguistic differences exacerbate political problems; and
>: conversely that linguistic commonality can reduce friction. [Don't bother
>: to post counterexamples; they are obvious and irrelevant.]
>: 
>
>WHAT?? "Don't bother me with the facts, they have nothing to do with 
>reality"? What are you doing posting to a newsgroup in the sci.* hierarchy?
>
This is an inaccurate restatement. Counter-examples are valid for disproving
an assertion in hard science, but not in sociology.
I stand by my assertion: linguistic commonality *can* reduce friction.
Will you disagree with this?

Miko.

>-- 
>The 1990s: the Duh Decade.
>
You said it!!


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