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From: mrz5149@rit.cs.rit.edu (M. R. Zucca)
Subject: Re: European language (was: European Governments Agree to Ban Strong Crypto)
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 20:35:22 GMT
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I think the argument for using a natural language over Esperanto is that
you already have a portion of the world that doesn't have to worry about
learning it. It might be better if we all learned Mandarin. The grammar
is simple and 1/4 of the humans on this planet already speak it to some
degree. That's 1.2 billion people who don't need to worry about learning
a language.

Think, if the Chinese learned Hindi and the Indians learned Mandarin, then
only half of the world's population would need to learn two languages.

(This is, of course, sarcasm).

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