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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: Quantifying Esperanto's Internationalness
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:43:55 GMT
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lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross) writes in a recent posting (reference <E2JGK6.KMq@scn.org>):
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>To try to get some sort of statistical handle on Esperantists' claim of 
>their language's "internationalness" (in *use* more than in *etyma*), I 
>have analysed issue no. 0112 of the biweekly newsmagazine _Eventoj_.  

I would like to see a similar look at "Monato" for its articles are
almost always written by a local reporter-- so we see a Chinese reporter
writing an article about Chinese events, Germans about German, and so forth.

Or the participation in the Usenet group soc.culture.esperanto might show
this kind of internationalness better than "Eventoj".

This said, this quick sketch of "Eventoj" still shows impressive
breadth of field, especially compared to US reportage.


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